Geopolitik

El prestigioso intelectual, escritor y diplomático boliviano Carlos Antonio Carrasco F. nos brinda la traducción de su obra "LOS CUBANOS EN ANGOLA (1975-990)" (Bases para el estudio de una guerra olvidada), cuyo título original en francés es de "L'intervention étrangère dans la guerre angolaise: l'expérience cubaine" (INALCO, París, 1996). El título en francés es más explícito acerca del contenido de su libro actual.A través de su apasionante lectura podemos concluir que en Angola tuvimos un campo de experiencias de la guerra fría, donde se pusieron en evidencia y franco enfrentamiento la Doctrina Brezhnev, de la ocupación irreversible de avanzadas comunistas en el mundo, y la Doctrina Reagan, de que al expansionismo soviético no sólo había que detenerlo sino derrotarlo, para lo cual los Estados Unidos usaron una doble arma: la ideológica promoviendo los valores democráticos aún en países de estructuras capitalistas como fueron los casos de Filipinas y de Chile para citar dos extremos geográficos y otra práctica de ayuda militar y económica abierta a las facciones opuestas al avance y consolidación del comunismo, como en Nicaragua y Afganistán.

'Absolutely gripping, deeply authoritative, hugely important and lethally lurid'Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sunday Times bestselling author of The World: A Family HistoryYevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and as one of Vladimir Putin's chief rivals in Russia's tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading Wagner's attempted coup and killed in a mysterious plane crash. But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos unleashed across Russia by his turn against Putin? And, in the aftermath of his death, what is next for Russia in the new stage of late Putinism that Prigozhin's life forged?Drawing on years of research, this book traces the rise of Russia's most prominent non-state actor and examines the political climate that propelled a convicted gangster with no government office to the formidable role he came to occupy. An essential story of Russia's recent history, Downfall is also a compelling insight into its likely future.

This book argues that China's Belt and Road Initiative should be seen more as a geopolitical project and less as a global economic project, with China aiming to bring about a new Chinese-led international order.

In Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control Dali L. Yang provides a definitive account of China's response to the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Examining the first six months of the outbreak, Yang details the government's handling of information about the epidemic and the decisions that shaped the scale and scope of the outbreak. Not just an unprecedented portrait of China's initial response to what quickly turned into a global pandemic, Yang provides a genuinely unique window into how the Chinese communist regime governs.

With President Biden recently describing the Chinese premier Xi Jinping as "a dictator," the shooting down of Chinese balloons in US airspace, the increasing of US military aid to Taiwan, and the banning of US exports of microchips to China, the American drumbeat for a new cold war with the world's second largest economy is getting ever louder.This new found aggression towards China is profoundly mistaken, in the view of authors Jodie Evans and Mikaela Nhondo Erskog. Their crisply focused and richly informative new book, based on years of first-hand experience and extensive research, lays out an accessible history of China, examines its culture and current economic strategy, and in particular focuses on the outlook of the younger generation. It concludes that  a strategy of peaceful co-existence will be far more beneficial for working people in both countries, especially for the many Chinese Americans resident in the US, and vital in reducing the risk of a cataclysmic military confrontation between two nuclear powers.

How American Indians were cheated out of the inherent wealth of their land and timber, at times exterminated for it, by greedy settlers, bribed federal agents, land sharks, lumber barons and a derelict federal trustee.

In Death, Dominance, and State-Building, Roger D. Petersen offers a definitive work on the course, conduct, and aftermath of the Iraq war. He uniquely combines an accessible analytical framework with detailed case studies that unpack the dynamics between the US military and various Shia and Sunni insurgents. The book covers the entire 2003-2023 period in Iraq, incorporating the insights and voices of US military personnel, Iraqi citizens, and even Iraqi insurgents. While it comprehensively covers the past in Iraq, it also draws lessons for the future of American military intervention.

Het lijdt geen twijfel dat Royal Dutch Shell van het "Comité van 300" een van de oudste en grootste oliemaatschappijen is die vandaag de dag wereldwijd actief zijn. De omzet in 2005 bedroeg 306,73 miljard dollar. Wijlen koningin Juliana van Nederland, Lord Victor Rothschild, prins Nasi van Afrika Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, de Samuels van Londen en het Huis Windsor zijn de grootste aandeelhouders van Royal Dutch Shell. Bij Juliana's dood gingen haar aandelen over naar het Huis van Oranje (Nederland).Dit historische verslag van de olie-industrie neemt ons mee door de kronkels van de 'diplomatie' (leugens, valse beloften, chantage, dubbele deals, politieke druk, intimidatie en oneerlijke diefstal) van Iraakse grond en olie, begeerd door alle naties, maar vooral door het imperialistische Groot-Brittannië, dat zich bijna een eeuw lang heeft bemoeid met de interne aangelegenheden van Irak en Iran, door het ene na het andere land te verleiden, over te halen en concessies af te dwingen, op basis van beloften die nooit zijn nagekomen en onder de dreiging van een ijzeren vuist verborgen in een fluwelen handschoen.Na de ontdekking van rijke afzettingen van ruwe olie in Irak en Iran is er de afgelopen 95 jaar een langdurige staat van conflict met de Verenigde Staten en de twee landen ontstaan.

De meerderheid van de Amerikanen weet dat er een drugsepidemie is, maar slechts een kleine minderheid is zich ervan bewust dat deze aan onze samenleving is toegebracht door de "heersers van de duisternis, de goddelozen op hoge plaatsen, die de duisternis verkiezen boven het licht omdat hun daden verkeerd zijn". Dit boek gaat over wie deze mannen zijn en hoe ze het grootste en meest winstgevende bedrijf ter wereld leiden, wat ze hebben bereikt en hoe effectief hun tegenmaatregelen zijn geweest.Laat je niet wijsmaken dat de drugshandel gewoon een straathandel is, waarbij de dealers worden gecontroleerd door de maffia. Dit is zeker een deel van het probleem, maar de echte promotors van deze vervloekte handel bevinden zich in de wandelgangen van de 'elite' van deze wereld, de 'koninklijke' families, de 'adellijke' families van Europa en de 'beste' families van Amerika, Groot-Brittannië en Canada. De handel bereikt de hoogste echelons van de macht en is niet uitgeroeid, alleen enigszins ingeperkt. Het US Drug Enforcement Agency (USDA) en drughandhavingsinstanties over de hele wereld proberen een bosbrand te bestrijden met slangen zonder voldoende waterdruk. Hoe is dit mogelijk?Het antwoord is dat de drugshandel niet uitgeroeid kan worden omdat de bestuurders ervan, de heersers van de duisternis, de schurken op hoge plaatsen, niet zullen toestaan dat 's werelds meest lucratieve handel, met kolossale winsten die een minimale investering vereisen, een vrijwel gratis product met lage productiekosten, hen wordt afgenomen.

"De vijand in Washington is meer te vrezen dan de vijand in Moskou." Het is een gevoel dat ik keer op keer heb geuit. Het communisme heeft de tariefbescherming van president George Washington niet vernietigd. Het communisme dwong de Verenigde Staten niet om de progressieve inkomstenbelasting in te voeren. Het communisme creëerde niet de Federal Reserve Board. Het communisme sleurde de Verenigde Staten niet mee in de Eerste en Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het communisme legde Amerika niet de Verenigde Naties op. Het communisme nam het Amerikaanse volk het Panamakanaal niet af. Het communisme creëerde niet het massale genocideplan van het Global 2000 rapport. Het was het SOCIALISME dat deze kwaden over de Verenigde Staten bracht!Het communisme gaf de wereld geen AIDS! Het communisme bezorgde Amerika geen rampzalige werkloosheidscijfers. Het communisme lanceerde geen meedogenloze aanvallen op de Amerikaanse grondwet.Het communisme dwong Amerika niet om "buitenlandse hulp" in te voeren, die verdomde belasting op het Amerikaanse volk die onvrijwillige dienstbaarheid is.Het communisme dwong geen einde aan het bidden op school. Het communisme propageerde niet de leugen van de "scheiding van kerk en staat".Het communisme gaf Amerika geen Hooggerechtshof vol met rechters die vastbesloten waren om de Amerikaanse grondwet te ondermijnen. Het communisme stuurde onze soldaten niet naar een illegale oorlog in de Golf om de belangen van de Britse kroon te beschermen.En toch waren al die jaren, terwijl onze aandacht gericht was op het kwaad van het communisme in Moskou, de socialisten in Washington druk bezig met stelen van Amerika! Alleen The Dictatorship of the Socialist World Order legt uit hoe dit werd en wordt bereikt.

Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world

In recent years, security actors have become increasingly concerned with health issues. This book reveals how understandings of race, sexuality and gender are produced/reproduced through healthcare policy. Analysing the plasma of paid Mexicana/o donors in the US, airport vomit in Ebola epidemics and the semen of soldiers with genitourinary injuries, this book shows how security practices focus upon governing bodily fluids. Using a variety of critical scholarship - feminist technoscience, queer studies and critical race studies - this book uses fluids to reveal unequal distributions of life and death.

The last decade or so has seen US-China relations enter a negative spiral. The evolution of this complex relationship has triggered a fast-growing debate on whether this is a New Cold War. Building on a deconstruction of concepts such as cold wars and Cold War, this book illustrates how the relationship between the US and China has been a "marriage of convenience" - with both cooperation and competition - for years, but also that we might be close to the end of it. The US and China, it is argued, are locked in a "new type of cold war" where mechanisms of deterrence and competition differ compared to those of the Cold War, and which makes the return of bloc politics possible.

Since the end of the Second World War, the role of the United States in the international arena has been closely linked to the stability of its security alliance system. For strategic reasons, one of the major goals for the U.S. foreign policy has always been preventing the rise of a hegemonic power in Eurasia. Actually, history and geopolitics tend to show that the global balance of power strictly depends on dynamics, threats and acting players in Eurasia. Despite Chinäs growing global influence, it is in Asia-Pacific that the Chinese quest for power has played out more vividly. In this framework, the partnership between Russia and China represents a source of worries for the West as a whole and, more specifically, the gravest strategic threat to U.S. overseas interests.

"This book theorizes China's coercion decisions in response to perceived threats to its national security. It leverages empirical evidence, including primary documents and interviews with Chinese and foreign officials and offers policy implications for understanding China's grand strategy, managing China's rise, and avoiding great power conflicts"--

India remains integral in all the discourses on Asian Century. Eminent scholars have conceptualized and provided nuanced interpretations of India's aspirations, threats, and options with regard to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia and China in South China Sea. Acknowledging these scholarly views but stepping beyond, a set of emerging scholars from India attempt to examine the concepts of nations, national identity and war, and multilateralism in this book. Extrapolating these concepts into current affairs, they then evaluate CPEC, India-Afghanistan- Pakistan, and China-Taiwan conundrum. They also critically look at the emerging challenge of private military contractors in international security and the potentially provocative Russia-India-China alliance using the Primakov Doctrine, taking de-dollarization as a case study. The student-authors were mentored and guided in their research for their contributions during their internship with Praghna Centre for Research and Defence Research and Studies, as part of a research writing program spanning four months.

Pyotr Volkov (born in Uruguay as Diego Daniel García), is an anthropologist and historian with a special interest in past and current events related to the great history of Slavdom and Orthodox Christianity. For an entire decade, he worked to create an ambitious book in which Orthodox Christianity is put at the center of all political, economical, philosophical, and anthropological considerations which shape our modern world. In this very encompassing book, the author provides the reader with special tools to reach an almost impossible task: a holistic Meta-ideology (Normativism), being characterized by comprehension of the parts of reality as intimately interconnected to the grand whole of the divine and earthly, the spiritual and material opposites. The long journey expressed through this book goes all the way from ancient religions, the developing of Christian Orthodoxy, and contemporary philosophers like the polemical Russian thinker Aleksandr Dugin, whose provocative Fourth Political Theory is an invitation for the creation of new alternatives in the path to human salvation through civilizational redemption.Through the results of his research, Volkov made clear that this work is by no way just a political and theological manifesto, but more like his final political and theological testament and a clear warning to present and future generations about the grim future provided by liberal civilization and deviation from the immortal teachings of the Holy Fathers. In addition, Volkov proposes bold planning to safeguard the great legacy of what Guillaume Faye called "Euro-Siberia": a new geopolitical paradigm different from both Eurasianism and Atlanticism, thus an opportunity for Christian Orthodoxy to overcome its great challenges.

India has emerged as a confident and engaging partner in international arena, metamorphosing from the image of a reluctant power in the late 20th century, reflecting a realization by its polity of the potential and benefits of such engagements in India's larger interests. While tons of literature delve on India's relations with the west, far and near, scholarly studies relating to the Far East or Greater Central Asia, however remain limited. This book attempts bridge this gap. Drawing on broad range of schools of thoughts and a number of different approaches, it presents the learned views of scholars applying a variety of methodological techniques. While keeping Mongolia at the centre of interest, the scholarly approaches look at India's Look East and Look North Policies, Mongolia's relations with Russia, the Third Neighbour Dilemma, USA-Mongolia relations, and India-Tajik relations, including the play of soft power in international relations.