Section: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA)
Putin the Improviser
The Ukraine showdown is even scarier and more dangerous than most people think: President Putin is making it up as he goes along. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Whether Minsk Deal Holds or Not, Ukraine Has Time to Save Itself
Ukraine’s latest ceasefire agreement will not make constitutional reform happen, but the deal can help refocus Ukrainian and Western attention on that process. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Europe and the End of Ukraine’s Territorial Integrity
Despite much rhetoric to the contrary, EU leaders have torn up the post–Cold War rules of territorial integrity by failing to defend Ukraine’s borders. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukrainian Crisis and Its Limited Impact on Turkish Russian Relations
Turkey and Russia have a deeply “compartmentalized” relationship. A disagreement on one regional issue-Ukraine, Georgia or even Syria-will not necessarily derail their bilateral relations. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Disturbing Legacy of the Ukraine Crisis
The new Minsk agreement will not necessarily prevent further escalation, but it might postpone it. The world should work hard to make sure that the truce does not founder, leading to a broader war. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
What Did Minsk II Actually Achieve?
The agreement and the subsequent joint declaration of the “Normandy Four” lay the political groundwork for peace. Still, questions remain about the feasibility of a ceasefire, and the will of Russian, Ukrainian, and separatist leaders to implement the mechanisms necessary to resolve the conflict. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for...
Merkel Alone
The German chancellor has done everything possible, excluding using force, to end the war in eastern Ukraine. Now, she needs wide support to make a new peace accord stick. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
What Would It Take to Restore a Peace Order in Europe?
Western leaders’ recent attempts to assure a diplomatic resolution of the Ukraine crisis may come to no avail. Is it possible to restore the peaceful, European status quo amidst such rapidly growing East-West animosity? Eurasia Outlook asked Carnegie’s experts to share their thoughts. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for...
Ukraine: The War Must Go On?
As terrible as it sounds, Kyiv’s endless dysfunction is the Kremlin’s most powerful ally in the current crisis-a point that is glossed over in Western policy debates on sending lethal aid to Ukraine. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
European Security After Ukraine
The war in eastern Ukraine is about more than the future of the European geopolitical order. It is about the role of the United States in Europe. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
