Russia’s War in Ukraine Must Change the EU
The EU needs to plan now for a new policy toward its Eastern neighbors. It cannot wait for Russia to end its destruction of Ukraine or destabilize other countries in the region. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Warum Deutschland einen Sonderbevollmächtigten für Migration braucht
Der Ukrainekrieg beansprucht derzeit weitgehend die außen- und sicherheitspolitischen Kapazitäten der Bundesregierung. In der Flucht- und Migrationspolitik stehen die Aufnahme, Verteilung und Versorgung der Geflüchteten im Vordergrund. Die künftig zu bewältigenden Herausforderungen Deutschlands gehen aber weit über die aktuelle Flucht und...
Ukraine: „Stillstandszenario“
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Jenseits des Westens: Wie afrikanische und nahöstliche Staaten auf den Russland-Ukraine-Krieg blicken
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Unmöglicher Frieden? Optionen für die ukrainisch-russischen Verhandlungen
Seit den Gesprächen im März in der Türkei sind die Verhandlungen zwischen der Ukraine und Russland ins Stocken geraten. Dies liegt am Taktikwechsel Russlands von Anfang April, mit dem es seine Ziele einer »De-Militarisierung” und »Entnazifizierung” der Ukraine auf anderem Wege zu erreichen versucht. Das Kalkül der russischen...
Failing to Deter Russia’s War against Ukraine: The Role of Misperceptions
Despite what looked like tremendous efforts by the West to deter Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the Kremlin started a full-scale military invasion across the Ukrainian border from the north, east, and south. Clarifying why these deterrence efforts did not work as expected could provide useful insights for building more effective...
Why Indonesia’s Palm Oil Export Ban Could Backfire
It threatens to upend domestic and global markets already struggling with the fallout from the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The War in Ukraine and Its Impact on Syria
In Syria, the immediate effects of the war in Ukraine have made an already difficult humanitarian situation even worse. Protracted violence in Ukraine or an expansion of the Ukraine war into a larger NATO-Russia confrontation would endanger multilateral cooperation on conflict management, conflict resolution and humanitarian issues in Syria....
Rethinking Strategic Sovereignty
The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is forcing Europeans into a confrontational security order. This also makes European strategic sovereignty – in defence policy, but also in economics, technology, energy policy, and institutional framework – a more significant goal for the European Union (EU). Until now, however, a central narrative...
Finland wants to use the “NATO option”
Russia’s attack on Ukraine has changed Finland’s security policy calculations. After the end of the Cold War, two principles were essential for Finnish foreign and security policy: maintaining good relations with Russia on the one hand, and a strong national defence capability on the other hand. The country wanted to be prepared for...
