Global Think Tank Ranking 2014 BICC amongst leading think tanks worldwide in two categories
Amongst the Top 150, there are 12 German institutes while nine institutes can be found amongst the Top 100. BICC is the only German institute that specialises in peace and conflict research.”The world seems to have turned upside down. The violence in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, or Afghanistan presents complex challenges to international...
SOTU 2015: Experts comment on the president’s vision for foreign policy
At a World Affairs Council panel Wednesday night, four foreign policy experts graded President Obama’s State of the Union speech. According to Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the speech failed to address “just how much the US role around the world is changing.” AEI’s Daniella Pletka noted that on the...
Crimea’s Vanishing Religious Communities
Re-registration requirements and other red tape are driving out priests, nuns, even visiting imams. From Forum 18. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Poroshenko Insists on ‘Unitary’ Ukraine, Top Schools in Tajikistan Under Threat
Plus, Poland’s president rejects his foreign minister’s Auschwitz remark and the Paris attacks cloud Romania and Bulgaria’s Schengen hopes. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
New Investment Opportunities: Possibilities for China and Challenges for Ukraine
Director of Economic programmes at the Razumkov Centre Vasyl Yurchyshyn contributed to the Global Review, Winter 2014 issue on the great development potential and economic benefits for Chinese investment in Ukraine. …read more Source: Razumkov...
Reforms are lagging far behind the pace of the deepening economic crisis
On Holos Stolytsi Radio, Economic Research Consultant of the Razumkov Centre Volodymyr Sidenko spoke about the challenges and prospects for Ukrainian industries. …read more Source: Razumkov...
Launch of 2014 Go to Think Tank Index Report and the Roundtable “Ukrainian Think Tanks in the Global Network of Think Tanks: Potential, Challenges and Prospects”
On 22 January 2015, the Razumkov Centre held the Roundtable “Ukrainian Think Tanks in the Global Network of Thinks Tanks: Potential, Challenges, Prospects”. The event gathered over 60 prominent experts and representatives of governmental and non-governmental organisations, representatives of the Presidential Administration and respective...
Europe’s Eastern War
The fighting in eastern Ukraine is threatening regional stability. Could it be time to involve neighboring governments and civil society in efforts to secure a ceasefire? …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 20 January 2015
This report is for the media and the general public. The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The SMM observed shelling damage and continued shelling, especially in Donetsk city. In three separate locations in...
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 10:00 (Moscow time), 21 January 2015
This report is for media and the general public. SUMMARY Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both BCPs. Overall cross-border traffic flows slightly decreased at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The OM continued to observe a number of persons in military-style clothing crossing the...
