Section: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA)
Europe’s Nightmare: Ukraine’s Massive Meltdown
If Ukraine enters a new round of massive instability, it could become a vortex into which Russia and the West will be sucked-with unpredictable and likely dire results. What Ukraine needs today is for the West to lean hard on Kiev in support of economic and political reform. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Iran and EU Leaders Issued Joint Statement on Iran Nuclear Talks
Negotiators in Switzerland announced a “tentative agreement” to limit Iran’s nuclear program and Federica Mogherini, European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, said EU sanctions against Iran will end. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Crimea as Part of Russia: First Conclusions
Russia’s problems with Crimea and Crimea’s problems with Russia will only continue to grow. We will see the effects of this in a year during the celebration of the second anniversary of the reunification. But next time, we can definitely expect less fanfare. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Explaining China’s Position on the Crimea Referendum
China recognizes the complex historical dimensions of the situation in Crimea and remains committed to a diplomatic solution that considers the interests of all parties involved. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Bye-Bye, Abkhazia, Crimea, South Ossetia!
European governments are powerless to prevent the erosion of the security architecture set out in the 1975 Helsinki Final Act. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Remember Crimea? A Year Later
The first anniversary of Crimea’s annexation is an occasion to refocus on Ukraine’s central challenge: the need to implement domestic reforms and limit Russian leverage. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
German Power and the Ukraine Conflict
The Ukraine crisis has revealed both the strengths of German foreign policy-diplomatic skill and economic power-and its weakness-a lack of military muscle. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukraine: The Kingdom of the Oligarchs
Prospects for Ukraine’s long-term success and cohesion will be determined by its ability to pursue far-reaching reforms to modernize the state and to check the power of the oligarchs. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
A Blast From the Past
Putin stated that the Russian leadership was ready to use nuclear forces in the days of the Crimean annexation. First of all, he tries to give the people an extra shot of the “superpower steroid,” but whether wittingly or not quite, the old threat of the nuclear war is back. | Русский …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Long Live Minsk II?
The Minsk agreements are fragile.How effectively they are implemented will depend primarily on the Europeans’ ability to convince Moscow to pressure separatists into observing the ceasefire, and on Kyiv’s ability to keep nationalist militias in line. If either side fails to do so, the fighting is likely to resume. …read more...
