Section: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Israel)
Concerning the Law “On the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine”: the Inevitable Conflict After the War
BESA-PSCRP Reports No 35 (February 14, 2024) On July 1, 2021, a little more than six months before the start of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada passed the law “On the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine” initiated by … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
“Confused Seas”: The Current State of Maritime Affairs
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,261, February 6, 2024 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The global maritime arena is undergoing a period of change and upheaval. This includes Iranian aggression and Houthi piracy, conflict in the Black Sea, maritime border disputes over energy deposits in the Mediterranean Sea, tensions in the South China Sea, Russian and...
Prospects for Conflict Settlement in Transnistria
BESA-PSCRP Reports No 33 (February 7, 2024) Transnistria (officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic) is one of the three quasi-state entities, along with South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which still exist today, created on the initiative and with the active support of Moscow in 1990, even before the official collapse of the USSR, in order to...
The Gaza Terror Offensive – 18 January – 3 February 2024
THIS ARTICLE WILL BE REGULARLY UPDATED. THE MOST RECENT UPDATES WILL BE AT THE TOP. BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,215, February 5, 2024 “We cannot always prevent the murder of workers in an orchard or sleeping families, but we can set a high price for our blood. A price too high for the Arab settlement, the Arab army and the Arab...
The Coming Storm of Autonomous War Robots and the West’s Dangerous Phobias
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,262, February 8, 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The war in Ukraine is acting as a super-accelerator in the development of low-cost, low-tech, mass-produced robotic military systems – robot armies, in other words – by actors with … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Russian Nationalists’ Movement Against the Backdrop of War in Ukraine
BESA-PSCRP Reports No 30 (January 17, 2024) The war in Ukraine has changed Russian society in many ways. One of the most anticipated areas of these changes is related to nationalism, and these changes are certainly taking place. This article … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Russian Buddhists and the war in Ukraine
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 26 (January 7, 2024) Although religion is nominally separate from the state in the Russian Federation, de facto religious structures have become an integral part of the state apparatus. Russia’s top Orthodox and Muslim clergy unequivocally supported … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
BESA Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Digest No. 3 (December 2023)
In December 2023, the BESA Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Program published papers on separatist threats and Church-related antisemitism in Russia, French participation in post-Soviet geopolitical dynamics, the perception of Israel’s war against Hamas in Russia and Ukraine, and the geopolitical (re)orientation … …read more Source::...
Intensification of French Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus and Central Asia: Israeli Perspective
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 20 (December 13, 2023) After the Second Karabakh War (2020) and especially after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine (2022), France saw a number of new diplomatic opportunities opening up for it in the southern post-Soviet … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
War In Ukraine and the Potential For Inter-Ethnic Conflict in Tuva
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 1819 (December 10, 2023) In February 2022, launching a full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the top military and political leadership of the Russian Federation was counting on a blitzkrieg. However, by now the war has been going on … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
