Section: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Israel)
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...
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...
