Islas Asia

La nueva visita del presidente estadounidense Barack Obama a Japón y Corea del Sur, y su no paso por China, subraya de nuevo un problema grave y no resuelto en Asia: las tensiones por la soberanía de ciertas islas. Mientras el gigante chino incrementa su poder y el nivel de presión, Estados Unidos refleja incertidumbre en su posible respuesta -por más que Obama haya declarado ser fiel a los tradicionales aliados japoneses y surcoreanos. ¿Los vínculos comerciales entre los cuatro países podrán ser un factor contundente en el mantenimiento de la paz en Asia? Un repaso por algunos de esos enlaces ayudará a pensar. Sin olvidar lo fundamental de la necesaria política que acompañe con diplomacia.

The responsibility while protecting

  The general idea will be to compare the concept responsibility to protect (R2P) with the Brazilian presentation of responsibility while protecting (RwP), supported by the emerging countries. While the first one was presented in the 2005 World Summit Outcome, coinciding with the sixtieth United Nations anniversary, the latter saw the light in 2011 when the South American country circulated a paper about it in the Security Council.

  This idea makes more efforts to apply new advances in theories such as human security? There are great differences?

Argentina, Brazil and South America

  The relation between Brazil and Argentina never had a real stage of enmity. This, if we consider, for example, the categorization that Alexander Wendt made in 1999, in his famous book Social Theory of International Politics[1]. There were no wars among the two countries; there are not any now. There is also no arms race or trying to see who has a stronger and capable military command; neither is there a competition to see who has an atomic bomb first. In fact, in this last point, both Nations cooperate in an active way, in relation with the nuclear energy. And they must continue in that sense. From one decade to the other the relations had passed from the constant economical exchange, concentrated in Mercosur, to more diverse aspects, now in debate in Unasur organization. The first, commercial, despite some turbulences, it is already a constant factor and mandatory -but yes, it need improvements-. It is not so present in this work. Mercosur as well Unasur, both, need more diplomacy, political improvement, and practical changes. But it is in Unasur where the innovations of the last decade are concentrated. And they must be there.

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[1]   Cambridge University Press, 1999.