Post-pandemic geopolitics
By: Gonzalo Rubio Piñeiro (22/04/2021).
The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet quantifiable; however, the main variables that currently define the evolution of the strategic environment are easily identifiable. From these, you can establish global forward-looking scenarios and analyze their specific impact in Latin America.
The Chinese fishing army: a threat to Latin America
By: Andrés González Martin (17/03/2021).
In 2020, the Ecuadorian press, concerned about the presence of an unusual number of Chinese fishing boats off its coast, reported that the total Chinese high seas fleet (DWF) exceeded 3,000 vessels.1 Recent assessments have estimated China’s offshore fishing fleet at between 1,600 and 3,400 vessels, although it is unclear whether the Chinese government has a complete picture of their size.2
Internet and hybrid conflicts: a new scenario of confrontation
By: María Ana Leal (10/03/2021).
During the last decade, criminal organizations have been taking advantage of the new digital environments to achieve part of their objectives, such as recruiting young audiences (through a media establishment of the so-called “narcoculture” presented as an attractive way of life), transmitting communications to the political sector, sending threatening messages to other organizations, demonstrating power and territorial control, among others.
The new geopolitics: Prospective approach of national power
By: Manuel Paz Ramos (03/03/2021).
The article analyzes how the new geopolitics consolidates planning between national policy and foreign policy. In this sense, prospective studies, especially in the Defense Sector, must take these studies into account, mainly in the economic, technological, environmental and development fields.
Biden, Latin America and Colombia: Stability and Adjustments in Continental Foreign Relations
By: Vicente Torrijos (16/02/2021).
The arrival of Joseph Biden to the presidency of the United States requires answering a deep strategic question: What can be the architecture of hemispheric relations?
The struggles for hegemony and the new virtualized world
By: Manolo Eduardo Villagra (11/02/2021).
In this article, the author analyzes the hegemonic struggle as a cyclical social phenomenon in which the countries with greater power use different instruments and strategies to gain dominance. Currently, these struggles are developed within the framework of a new paradigm such as virtual society in the context of COVID-19, against which competing countries have had to adapt, generating a process of global restructuring.
