Relaciones Internacionales – Comunicación Internacional

30 marzo, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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The water situation in Africa. Challenges for Nile river basin region

WORLD AFFAIRS WINTER 2018 (OCTOBER – DECEMBER) VOL 22 NO 4

INTIKHAB AHMAD

The Nile river basin is located in the water scarce arid/semi-arid region of the African continent, where eleven riparian countries struggle to satisfy their own water requirements. Therefore, managing and sharing Nile water in an equitable manner is a complex matter, especially with respect to the existing power balance in the region. For the past decade, the Nile basin has undergone many economic and political changes that are likely to encourage modifications in the balance of power. Powerful lower riparian countries, particularly Egypt and Sudan, exercise their hegemonic and historical rights to utilise a larger share of river water, whereas other comparatively weaker upper riparian states like Ethiopia strive to enhance their water share or even get their legitimate due. With the emergence of South Sudan, the situation in the basin has become even more complex. Continue leyendo →

30 marzo, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Contenus terroristes sur Internet : le futur Règlement européen en question

Par Laurence Bindner et Raphael Gluck, co-fondateurs de JOS Project 

Au cours de l’année 2018, alors que Daech recule de plus en plus sur le terrain, l’Etat islamique (EI) résiste sur un autre front, celui du djihad médiatique. Les nouvelles productions, en nombre certes réduit, continuent d’être diffusées sur le web, tandis que les archives relatives à l’idéologie, la doctrine, la stratégie et les modes opératoires demeurent disponibles. Continue leyendo →

30 marzo, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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How the world votes: 2019 (AJE)

How different voting systems work around the world

In 2019, more people will vote than ever before.

Nearly two billion voters in 50 countries around the world will head to the polls this year to elect their leaders.

Some of the biggest elections include India – the world’s largest democracy with 800 million eligible voters, Indonesia – 187 million registered voters and Nigeria – 84 million registered voters. Continue leyendo →

29 marzo, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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The Brexit delusion of taking back control

Martin Wolf  (F Times,

From Beijing, where I now am, the UK looks small. It also looks as if it has fallen into the hands of lunatics engaged in an astonishing act of national self-harm. But this, Brexiters will say, is an illusion. The UK is going to “take back control”. The slogan was brilliant. But it was the biggest delusion of all.

Control is different from sovereignty. As I argued during the referendum campaign, the UK was already sovereign: it could, if it wished, vote to leave the EU. It did so, but promptly discovered that, while it was sovereign, it was not very powerful. Yet control is about power.

In the post-referendum negotiations with the EU it has turned out, as informed people knew it would, that the EU was more powerful than the UK. This was so for a simple reason: it could impose far heavier penalties on the UK than the UK could on the EU. Britain sends 47 per cent of its exports of goods to the EU, while the rest of the EU sends 15 per cent of its exports to the UK. For the EU, the UK market is important. For the UK, the EU’s is vital.

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