Section: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Israel)
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...
Hamas terrorist invasion of Israel and its possible implications for Ukraine
Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin PSCRP-BESA Reports No 10 (October 15, 2023) One cannot fail to notice that the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Arabs occupies a distinct place in the ideological and political discourse accompanying post-Soviet armed conflicts, primarily the Russian-Ukrainian … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for...
How Russia Tries to Use the Central Asian States After the Invasion of Ukraine
Andrei Kazantsev-Vaisman PSCRP-BESA Reports No 6 (September 27, 2023) For a significant period, Russian policy in Central Asia has differed from its approach toward Ukrainian or Georgian issues. It was characterized by fewer elements of ideology and greater pragmatism. Pragmatic … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Attempt to capitalize on neutrality: How Central Asian states shape their policies on Russian-Ukrainian conflict
Andrei Kazantsev-Vaisman PSCRP-BESA Reports No 5 (September 26, 2023) Common trends in Russia’s relations with Central Asian countries during the Russian-Ukrainian war. The analysis of the positions of the Central Asian states regarding the Russia-Ukraine war is important from … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
Five Short and Medium-Term Scenarios of Conflict Dynamics in Post-Soviet Countries
Andrei Kazantsev-Vaisman PSCRP-BESA Reports No 2 Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 marked the completion of a series of changes that gradually reshaped the balance of power and diplomatic relations that had established in the post-Soviet space since the … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
The War in Ukraine:16 Perspectives, 9 Key Insights
Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 201 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In February 2022, after a decade of conflict manifested in continuous low-intensity fighting in southeastern Ukraine and after many months of a gradual increase in tensions between them, Russia invaded Ukraine. … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
The Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora and the War in Ukraine
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,206, July 11, 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 prompted political discourse among the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora around the world. Ukrainian Jewry is almost unanimous in its support of the … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic...
The Cyber Domain in the Russo-Ukrainian War
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,203, June 22, 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Cyber attacks have been carried out by both sides in the Ukraine-Russia war to neutralize national infrastructures, banking systems, and government ministries; influence decision-makers, citizens, and soldiers; and gather … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for...
