Articles by José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
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THE PROSPECTS OF A NEW COLD WAR? TOWARDS THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE RUSSIAN-LED CSTO MILITARY ALLIANCE
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
12 May 2009
"We are not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a new Cold War, but we don’t want one" -Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev In his 1997 book entitled The Grand Chessboard American geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote that if Russia ever attempted to launch its own defense pact, it would include, "at most", Belarus and Tajikistan[1]. […]
→ read full articleWHO IS BEHIND MOLDOVA’S TWITTTER REVOLUTION?
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
12 Apr 2009
"A lot of what we [National Endowment for Democracy] do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." -Allen Weinstein It seems that those who anticipated the end of color revolutions have been proven wrong. So far, color revolutions have succeeded in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. On the other hand, they have […]
→ read full articleAN IMPENDING GEOPOLITICAL EARTHQUAKE?
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
21 Feb 2009
The financial and economic turmoil the world is currently experiencing will certainly have many serious consequences beyond those fields. Indeed, its geopolitical fallout could be far more serious than commonly acknowledged and it is an element that cannot be neglected by neither statesmen nor analysts. Some scholars frequently hold that politics and economics are somehow […]
→ read full articleIS AN ‘ASIAN NATO’ REALLY ON THE US AGENDA?
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
29 Jan 2009
There has been some talk concerning American intentions to forge an Asian NATO, i.e. a US led military alliance meant to advance its members’ geopolitical interests in the region. During the Cold War, the US created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) which also encompassed France and the UK as well as regional pro-Western States […]
→ read full articleTHE GREAT DRAGON AWAKENS: CHINA CHALLENGES AMERICAN HEGEMONY
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco,
7 Jan 2009
Nowadays, most International Relations analysts acknowledge China’s potential to achieve superpower status over the course of the next decades due to its impressive economic growth, which was triggered by Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms program (inspired by theorists like Friedrich List). Chinese power has also increased considerably in military, geopolitical, trade and financial affairs. Some experts […]
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