Nearly One Year In, How Does This War End?
As Russia’s brutal attack continues, it is becoming increasingly clear that the war will have no winners. The West must do more to help Ukraine end the human suffering, attain a just peace, and preserve its sovereignty. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
What the Kremlin Really Hoped to Achieve With Its Ceasefire Proposal
The aim of the ceasefire proposal was to force the Ukrainian army and politicians to reject it in view of the Ukrainian public, who are often left without electricity, water, heating, or transport by Russia’s bombing campaign. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The EU’s Open Strategic Autonomy in the Field of Pharmaceuticals
The COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine have highlighted the dependence of the European Union (EU) on individual trading partners. One of the tasks of the European Commission’s new Directorate-General, the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), established in 2021, will therefore be to contribute to the EU’s...
Germany Must Move Past the Crossroads
New Western commitments to deliver combat vehicles to Ukraine are putting Berlin on the spot. To prevent Russia from further destabilizing Europe, Germany must forge a special Europapolitik. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Can Ukraine and Germany Overcome Their Disagreements Over Russia?
The problems in bilateral relations are unlikely to disappear any time soon. Ukraine won’t want to become another buffer zone separating Russia and the West, but that is the scenario Germany will give serious consideration, fearing another war or Moscow’s nuclear threats. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Der neue US-Kongress und die europäische Sicherheit
Die Hängepartie bei der Wahl Kevin McCarthys zum neuen Sprecher des US-Repräsentantenhauses ist auch für Washingtons Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik von Bedeutung. Sie verdeutlicht den Einfluss einer kleinen, aber doch zunehmend relevanten Gruppe republikanischer Politikerinnen und Politiker. Viele von ihnen lehnen nicht nur die...
Eurozone um Kroatien erweitert: Attraktives Projekt mit bestehenden Problemen
Die erste Euroraum-Erweiterung seit dem Beitritt Litauens im Krisenjahr 2015 gilt als großer Erfolg, ist aber eher eine Vernunftehe. Aus kroatischer Sicht ist die Einführung des Euro für die Wirtschaft von Vorteil, weil der größte Teil der Ausfuhren auf die Länder der Eurozone entfällt. Der Bankensektor ist ebenfalls stark auf den Euro...
From Common Values to Complementary Interests
The Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine have posed major challenges – in different ways – to Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries as well as to the European Union (EU). At the same time, these international crises have revealed how little resilience there is in the narratives that are supposed to inform...
The Attack on Ukraine and the Militarisation of Russian Foreign and Domestic Policy
Moscow’s decision on 24 February 2022 to invade Ukraine constituted a culmination in the militarisation trajectory of Russian foreign policy since 2008. At the same time, the war has exposed the weaknesses of the military reform launched by Moscow in 2008. The high losses of the country’s armed forces in Ukraine limit Russia’s...
EU Defense and the War in Ukraine
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU is seeking to fulfill its defense potential. But promising new defense policy proposals may lose momentum without more funds and attention. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
