Reflexiones internacionalistas

El 22 de noviembre tuve la suerte de haber sido invitada por uno de mis ex profesores del posgrado (Dibyesh Anand) a una mesa en mi alma mater de la maestría con la desafiante pregunta: '¿El Dalai Lama es malo para Occidente?' como título. La verdad es que aparte de haberme dado la grata sorpresa de que también estaría otro de mis ex profesores de la maestría y de las personas por las que me metí en este asunto del Tíbet ya de lleno (Tsering Topgyal)estuvo bastante interesante. Me respondió bastantes dudas que tenía sobre el tema y también interrogantes que tenía en torno a todo el asunto de la presencia de China en América Latina y nuestra aceptación de SS Dalai Lama para visitarnos. La presente entrada tratará de los asuntos que me parecieron relevantes y que pueden ser de gran utilidad para nosotros.  Todos mis lectores saben que he estado escribiendo bastante sobre el tema comercial de China, y en realidad mis críticas sí coinciden con algunas alrededor del mundo. H...

Today the world has evolved into a complex community,where countries and people interact in so many different ways that we can even question the existence of certain concepts like nation-state and most importantly, the existence of borders. Thanks to maps,one can have an idea of how the world is divided however, these 'lines' or 'limits' are not at all clear sometimes. In certain countries there is such a big diversity of ethnic groups that sometimes we could obtain ten mor more countries if we split this nation-state. The fact of some countries having serious internal problems in what respects to ethnic or religious differences has made the whole project of nation-state and even sovereignty being questioned,because sometimes thanks to these conflicts, some countries have disappeared or even divided, sometimes for good, others for bad. When internal conditions make a country to be divided into smaller nation-states, outcomes might be positive because in this case, w...

Since the scandal derived from Snowden's leaks of important documents after his fleeing from the National Security Agency and also after the NSA itself has been exposed by the whole world (mostly by Chiefs and Heads of State), the international community now faces new challenges that go beyond national security. It now comes to the world's attention that they have to reserve their secrets to themselves, because as the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, 'Friends are not supposed to spy on each other'. If countries cannot even trust their allies, then what will come next? The fact of drones going around the world falling either in the middle of nowhere or falling in small towns or provinces killing people has very strong implications and at the same time, it rises new questions regarding the concepts of sovereignity and it jeopardizes the existence and observance of International Law. The new problem of the NSA spying on everybody and drones falling here and there, s...