Los mejores libros de 2020, según AthenaLab

Cuando ya casi termina este año AthenaLab realizó una selección de 12 libros recomendados para el año 2020: “Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the contest for the world’s pivotal region”, Rory Medcalf Uno de los mejores del año y de los preferidos de AthenaLab, es su libro Rory Medcalf nos invita a dar una mirada […]

Jorge Guzmán: A 200 años del descubrimiento chileno de la tierra firme antártica

Ahora es posible afirmar que el descubrimiento de la tierra firme antártica debe atribuirse al Dragón de Valparaíso, a su tripulación y a su comandante el ex Teniente Andrés Macfarlane.   Uno de los topónimos del primer periodo de exploración de la Antártica que se conserva hasta hoy es aquel que designa al Estrecho de […]

COLABORACIÓN EXTERNA | La relación de la sociedad civil y su estamento militar en Uruguay

Como bien dice John Griffiths Spielman en “Visión de la defensa nacional de Chile al 2030” , la seguridad internacional actual está caracterizada por la competencia entre las grandes potencias, que se expresa en los ámbitos militar, económico, psicosocial, científico, diplomático, informático y tecnológico, para desarrollarse en tierra, mar, aire y ciberespacio. A nivel regional, […]

The strategic importance of the Indo-Pacific explained by Rory Medcalf (ANU)

The director of the National Security College of the Australian National University (ANU), Rory Medcalf, in a conference with AthenaLab on November 12, 2020, explained the challenges and opportunities of the Indo-Pacific, a central region for world affairs. His conference included the introduction of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrés Allamand, who expressed Chile’s interest […]

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London interviews John Griffiths on his “Western Way of War” podcast.

Peter Roberts, director of the Military Sciences program at RUSI, interviewed John Griffiths Spielman, head of AthenaLab’s Security and Defense studies, on August 10 of this year, as part of a program on the “Western Form of War”. ”, in which academics, politicians and members of the British and European Armed Forces have participated, such […]

“Chile has to be a maritime state,” says British historian Andrew Lambert

A wide participation had the online conference “The benefits of being a maritime country in the 21st century”, given on Friday, June 19, 2020 by Andrew Lambert, Professor of Naval History at King’s College London, which was organized by AthenaLab and which had the support of the Naval War Academy of the Chilean Navy and […]

MEMORIA ATHENALAB 2019

Conoce todas los eventos, conferencias y publicaciones realizadas por AthenaLab en 2019.

Is China a Sea Power?

Richard Kouyoumdjian seeks to answer the question about if China is or not a Sea Power. After analysing what authors like Alfred Thayer Mahan have to say about this concept, he uses the more contemporary points of view of Geoffrey Till to define what kind of Sea Power a nation, particularly in this case China, […]