What We’re Reading 02/06: A Weekly List of Our Program Directors’ Must-See Media
Filed in Blog Topics: What We’re Reading How can closing the education gap positively impact the economy? Why does ISIS support vaccinations (even while forbidding other humanitarian efforts)? What immediate action can the US take to help Ukraine? Programs at the Aspen Institute have been scouring their respective issue areas to find and...
How to Start a Proxy War with Russia
On Wednesday, Ashton Carter, the president’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, made headlines [4] when he told Congress that he was “very much inclined” to arm the Ukrainian troops in order to combat pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Meanwhile in Munich, Waiting for Merkel
Angela Merkel’s visit to Moscow for peace talks on the Ukraine crisis could be the last diplomatic attempt to end the fighting in the country’s east. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Seeming Truce Opens Humanitarian Corridor in Ukraine, NATO Plans New Rapid Response Force
Plus, devaluation speculation runs rampant in Kazakhstan, and a bombing reopens a Georgia police-brutality case. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Breaking trust
This editorial will be published in the February 16 edition of The Weekly Standard.At what point do we—the institution and our nation—lose our soldiers’ trust? The trust that we will provide them the right resources—the training and equipment—to properly prepare them and lead them into harm’s way. Trust that we will appropriately take...
American weapons will help reduce casualties among Ukrainian troops
According to prior Ukrainian-American consultations, the U.S. can provide countermeasures for armoured fighting vehicles, hostile fire detection systems, and communications to Ukraine. This was stated by Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk, informs the website Deutsche...
Azerbaijan Tightens Screws on Media, Poland Sets Presidential Election Date
Plus, cash-strapped Mongolia asks for IMF assistance, and Turkmenistanis line up to buy dollars as economic bad news mounts. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine: chances for a visa-free regime with the EU?
2015-02-04Marta JaroszewiczUkraine launched the long-awaited process of issuing biometric passports, and thus met one of the EU’s key requirements for the abolition of visas. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
Russia sabotages the Minsk agreement on the Donbas
2015-02-04Marek MenkiszakWojciech KonończukRussia intends to move closer to achieving its key goal: to subjugate Ukraine. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
The Munich Security Conference. What Security?
As a major annual security gathering begins, Western leaders have no clear moral, political, or strategic compass for Ukraine, the Islamic State, or refugees. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
