G-7 Sanctions ex-G-8 Partner, Pope Preaches Peace in Sarajevo
Plus, Baku tells the OSCE to start packing, and the author of the Prague Spring manifesto dies at 88. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Bringing Eastern Europeans Closer Together
Russia’s continuing meddling in Ukraine is motivating civil society across the region to work together. That is a chance for the EU to reach out in a more sustained way. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Military Madness: US Officials Consider Nuclear Strikes against Russia
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was at the headquarters of the US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany this week with two dozen US military commanders and European diplomats to discuss how to escalate their economic and military campaign against Russia. They will assess the impact of current economic sanctions, as well as NATO’s...
Obama: The Reluctant Realist
Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 113 Many have asserted that Barack Obama’s foreign policy lacks direction. He is seen as constantly improvising without any ideological or intellectual compass to guide him. I argue that this is not the case and that, in fact, Obama’s foreign policy can be explained as adhering very closely to...
Hardening Of Positions Undercuts Ukraine Peace Accord
June 5, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russian IS Recruit Stopped in Turkey, Chechnya Rights Group Attacked
Plus, Canada’s leader says Putin’s Russia should stay out of G-7 and Bosnia embraces the pope’s visit. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Overcoming the Ukraine Crisis
Memories of the twentieth century’s great conflicts, from 1930s pacifism to Cold War antagonism, are stirring again, motivating both Russia and the West in one of the gravest threats to global order and European stability in the past 25 years. Indeed, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine involves nuclear-armed powers whose collective military...
The Kremlin has not completely given up the Novorosiya project
Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi thinks that Putin’s Novorosiya project is not closed, informs the website Hlavkom. “I would hardly say that the Novorosiya project will be closed. It is for a fact that it failed as a blitzkrieg They counted on quick seizure i.e. the separation of these six oblasts...
Merkel on G7: ‘Summit is more than crisis diplomacy’
The heads of state and government of the seven leading industrial countries will gather in Germany on June 7 and June 8 to discuss the most pressing global challenges. The Group of Seven countries are linked not only by prosperity and economic strength, but also by their shared values: freedom, democracy and human rights. Anyone doubting that...
