Section: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Israel)
BESA Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Digest No. 14 (November 2024)
In November 2024, the PSCRP program at the BESA Center published analytical materials covering three subregions of the post-Soviet area, namely, Central Asia, “the West” (focusing this time on Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia), and the South Caucasus. Ariel Kogan comments… …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Ukraine at War: Sociological and Political Considerations
In the first decade of independence, Ukraine was quite distinctly divided into a number of regions, which differed greatly from each other in terms of ethno-identification and linguistic composition: 1. Western Ukraine: oblasts that were part of Austria-Hungary before World … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
The Political Nature of Granting Ukraine the Right to Strike Russian Territory
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 98 (Nov 21, 2024) Alexander Kovalenko On the night of November 19, a strike targeted the 1046th Logistics Support Center of the Russian Armed Forces near the city of Karachev in the Bryansk region. The Ukrainian Defense … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
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...
