Section: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA)
New Trio of EU Leaders Has Chance to Make a Difference
From the Ukraine crisis to the fight against the Islamic State, the Tusk-Juncker-Mogherini trio has many opportunities to put the EU on the map. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Europe Must Stand Its Ground Against Russia
For years, the EU was extremely cautious not to provoke Russia. But with Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine, the EU now has to accept that the situation has changed. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Ukrainian Communications Standoff
In the war of nerves now raging over Ukraine, the West does not need to counter Russian propaganda with its own parallel truth: it can rely on the power of facts. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Russia and Germany: The Antipodes in the International System
In character and attitude, Germany and Russia are the antipodes in today’s international system. That could explain perhaps both the closeness the two countries have felt for years and the growing confrontation which has come with the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Weak Ruble Exchange Rate Represents Political Bargaining Challenge
The financial troubles of the ruble represent the most striking and dangerous strategic challenge facing the Russian state since the conflict in Ukraine began. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Frozen Donbas?
Ukraine is in the process of forming a new government. President Putin has a say in the development of this process by threatening an invasion. And now he can be almost certain that the West will not go to war with Russia over Ukraine. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Russia, Ukraine, and the Visegrad: Time to Get Real
The crisis in Ukraine has betrayed fault lines in the Visegrad Group. Unless Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic change course, the “golden age” of Central Europe may come to an end. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Russia Divided
In 2014 the number of ethnic conflicts in Russia has declined. The drop resulted from the Ukrainian conflict which has shifted the generally xenophobic sentiments from an internal to an external adversary. The shift in the object of xenophobia does not however eliminate it altogether. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Poland’s Foreign Policy Needs More, Not Less, Germany
The Ukraine crisis shows that Poland’s special foreign policy toward its Eastern neighbors is needed more than ever-together with support from Berlin. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
It’s No Time for EU Wobbling Over Ukraine
Ukraine has experienced a number of failed revolutions. The hope today is that the October 26 elections will finally bring about the change the country needs. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
