Section: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Israel)
Jews and Jewish Ethno-politics in Independent Ukraine in Times of Peace And in Times of War (part 1)
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 89 (Oct 16, 2024) Introduction The history of Jews in Ukraine dates back more than two millennia, starting with the Jewish community that existed in the Greek colony of Panticapaeum, in what is now the town of … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Iran Fights for Influence in the post-Soviet Space: Turkic States Are Cautious
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 88 (Oct 13, 2024) The war in Ukraine has substantially weakened Russia’s position in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, requiring an increasing amount of resources to sustain. Iran is endeavoring to fill the power vacuum that … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Recent Cracks in Russian-Iranian Relations
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 83 (Sept 15, 2024) by Joseph Epstein In the past month, Iran has summoned the Russian ambassador, the Iranian Foreign Ministry congratulated Ukraine on its Independence Day and Iranian senior officials have publicly accused Russia of a … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Mainstreaming the Problem of Ukrainian Ethnic Territories in Russia
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 81 (Sept 5, 2024) Despite the fact that the top military and political leadership of Ukraine is still hesitant to make lengthy official statements regarding the tasks of the offensive operation of the AFU in the Kursk … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Will Russia Support Iran in the Event of its Full-scale Attack on Israel?
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 78 (August 27, 2024) Relations between Iran and Russia have significantly expanded since the onset of the full-scale military conflict in Ukraine in February 2022. Iran’s new president has promised to sign a strategic cooperation agreement with … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Kaliningrad — Russia’s Exclave in Europe
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 77 (August 23, 2024) During an official visit to Ukraine on 13 August 2024, Lithuanian Defense Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas said against the backdrop of the AFU offensive in Russia’s Kursk Region: “We are now seeing them (… …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Prospects for Diplomatic de-escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian War
The first major war in Europe since 1945 (with the exception of much smaller Yugoslav Wars), which began with the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army on February 24, 2022, has been going on for almost 30 months with … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Rivalry Over Wildberries As an Ethno-Political Conflict Within the Russian Elite
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 74 (August 11, 2024) Recently, amid the war in Ukraine, which has caused numerous changes in the Russian elite, as well as sanctions, which have caused the flight of foreign capital, the head of Chechnya, Kadyrov, together … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Circassian Factor in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian War
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 70 (July 21, 2024) The constant attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on Sevastopol and other Russian naval bases in Crimea have forced the Russians to move their ships to Novorossiysk and other ports on … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Ukraine and American Prospects
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 68 (July 09, 2024) by Russell A. Berman The Russian invasion of Ukraine has posed a direct challenge to the national sovereignty of an independent country, just as it continues to lead to extensive suffering, especially due … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
