Section: Chatham House (UK)
Russia’s Sovereign Globalization: Rise, Fall and Future
Project: Russia and Eurasia Programme, Promise and Realism in Relations With Russia, Russia’s Domestic Politics06 January 2016The failure of Russia’s experiment with sovereign globalization encourages pessimism about Russia’s prospects but optimism about globalization. Russian flag. Photo: bopav/iStock by Getty Images. Author:...
Postcard from Minsk
December 2015Fifth-term blues: Belarus needs reform but its leader isn’t keen, Volume 71, Number 6Author: Artyom Shraibman is a contributor to the independent Belarusian news portal www.tut.by Alexander Lukashenka, who was known as the last dictator of Europe until the title drifted to Vladimir Putin, has won a fifth term as president of...
Bolstering the Rule of Law and National Security: Is Ukraine Making Progress?
15DecInvitation OnlyResearch EventBolstering the Rule of Law and National Security: Is Ukraine Making Progress?15 Dec 2015 – 09:30 to 13:00Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, Ukraine ForumParticipantsOleksandr Lytvynenko, Deputy Secretary, National Security Council, UkraineThomas...
The EU as a Regional Power: The Eastern Neighbourhood
02DecResearch EventThe EU as a Regional Power: The Eastern Neighbourhood2 Dec 2015 – 09:30 to 12:45Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Europe ProgrammeParticipantsHans-Peter Hinrichsen, Head of Division for Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Eastern Partnership, Auswärtiges AmtOrysia Lutsevych, Manager, Ukraine...
Ukraine’s New Constitution: Devolution of Powers and the Rule of Law
04NovInvitation OnlyResearch EventUkraine’s New Constitution: Devolution of Powers and the Rule of Law4 Nov 2015 – 11:00 to 12:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, Ukraine ForumParticipantsNataliia Agafonova, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Head, Sub-Committee on...
Strengthening the Rule of Law Across Europe
16OctMembersStrengthening the Rule of Law Across Europe16 Oct 2015 – 13:00 to 14:00Chatham House, London ParticipantsThorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General, Council of EuropeRegister Register Download ResultsOverviewThe secretary general of the Council of Europe, the depositary of the European Convention of Human Rights, will address the key...
The future of NATO enlargement after the Ukraine crisis
Author: Andrew T. Wolff Russian President Vladimir Putin claims that his country’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 was partly in response to NATO enlargement. NATO leaders counter that eastern enlargement is not a cause of the Ukraine crisis, and they argue that enlargement does not threaten Russia, but rather it creates stability for...
A new Gaullist moment? European bandwagoning and international polarity
Author: Jean-Yves Haine The transatlantic partnership needs to be reassessed. Since the end of the Cold War, Europe has chosen to bandwagon with the United States and to outsource its security to Washington. Bandwagoning has serious consequences when the use of force is at stake: it may lead to entrapment, where weaker allies may be involuntarily...
Carl Schmitt in the Kremlin: the Ukraine crisis and the return of geopolitics
Author: Stefan Auer The protracted crisis in Ukraine has exposed fundamental political differences between leaders in western Europe and their counterparts in Russia. The very existence of the European Union was meant to have refuted geopolitics as a useful theoretical lens through which to view power relations in Europe. After all, the European...
Return to reason: reviving political realism in western foreign policy
Author: David Martin Jones and M. L. R. Smith Twenty-first-century political crises stretching from Europe to the Middle East and the Asia–Pacific have undermined the worldview that governed post-Cold War western thinking about a liberal end of history. This worldview assumed that shared norms and transnational institutions would transform the...
