Section: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Israel)
South Caucasus As a Zone of Conditional Stability
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 44 (March 26, 2024) Russia’s large-scale aggression against Ukraine has changed the entire world and affected all regions, from Africa, Asia and Latin America to Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space. In order to understand the current … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
BESA Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Digest No. 5 (February 2024)
In February 2024, the materials prepared by the Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Program at BESA covered a wide array of countries and sub-regions, including Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Armenia, and Central Asian states, focusing on both internal and external aspects of political … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
French Policy in the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe vs Israeli interests
BESA-PSCRP Reports No 37 (February 26, 2024) France is currently prioritizing two areas in the post-Soviet space: Ukraine and Armenia. These could be called the Eastern European and (extended) Mediterranean directions. Ideally, France could pursue both priorities simultaneously; however, in … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for...
Casus Belli: The Reaction in Post-Soviet Countries to Putin’s Interview with Carlson
BESA-PSCRP Reports No 36 (February 15, 2024) In his interview with Tucker Carlson, President Vladimir Putin provided justification for his policy toward Ukraine. In particular, considerable attention was paid to Putin’s interpretation of history, according to which Ukraine is a … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Casus Belli: The Reaction in Post-Soviet Countries to Putin’s Interview with Carlson
BESA-PSCRP Reports No 36 (February 15, 2024) In his interview with Tucker Carlson, President Vladimir Putin provided justification for his policy toward Ukraine. In particular, considerable attention was paid to Putin’s interpretation of history, according to which Ukraine is a … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Concerning the Law “On the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine”: the Inevitable Conflict
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...
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...
