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...
Taking Stock: Implications of the Riga Summit for the South Caucasus
Prior to its start, the European Union’s May 21–22 Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit in Riga was widely anticipated, given that the previous summit in Vilnius had been overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and newly evident Russian expansionism. Russia’s aggressive policies caused concerns in those various post-Soviet states under...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office calls for restraint following recent escalation in violence in eastern Ukraine
BELGRADE, 4 June 2015 –OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić today condemned the latest surge in violence in eastern Ukraine, and called on all parties to return to the negotiating table, pursue a political solution to the conflict through the Trilateral Contact Group and its working groups, as well as to...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 3 June 2015
This report is provided for the media and the general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and significant caution regarding security considerations *. The SMM observed a sharp increase in the number of ceasefire...
