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May17

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Russia-and-the-west

Thursday, May 17, 2018 - 15:43 (EEST)

A strategic confrontation between Russia and the West has been under way for at least four years: for understandable reasons, given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interference in the internal politics of the United States and some European countries, and his military adventurism in Ukraine and Syria. Yet Russia and the West are both poorly positioned to engage in a new strategic confrontation. The US faces domestic political turbulence as November 2018 mid-term elections approach and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election enters its final phase. Europe is preoccupied with Brexit and rising populism. …read more Source: International Institute for Strategic...

The-wider-implications-of-Zapad-2017

Feb10

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The-wider-implications-of-Zapad-2017

Saturday, February 10, 2018 - 22:45 (EEST)

2017 marked the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. A century on, Moscow has a rather different view of revolutionaries, as shown by the Zapad 2017 military exercise held on 14–20 September 2017. Zapad (West) is one of several military exercises that Russia regularly holds; others include Kavkaz (Caucasus), Tsentr (Centre) and Vostok (East). However, Zapad 2017 carried special strategic significance. The exercise was conducted in Belarus, which, according to the Russian Defence Ministry, was under threat from ‘extremist groups’ that were ‘receiving logistics assistance and military hardware by air- and sealift’ from outside parties; the scenario involved Russia coming …read more Source: International Institute for Strategic...

Section: International Institute for Strategic Studies (UK)

Everyone loses

Jan04

Everyone loses

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - 18:48 (EEST) Section: International Institute for Strategic Studies (UK)

Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country. This Adelphi book argues that the crisis has yielded a ruinous outcome, in which all the parties are worse off and international...

Samuel Charap – Russias use of military force as a foreign policy tool

Oct20

Samuel Charap – Russias use of military force as a foreign policy tool

Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 15:06 (EEST) Section: International Institute for Strategic Studies (UK)

Russia has used its military beyond its borders with unprecedented frequency in the period since the invasion of Crimea in February 2014. In this PONARS Policy Memo Samuel Charap explains this behaviour, arguing that we should see Moscow’s use of force as one element of a broader coercive bargaining process. …read more Source:...

Conflict Management in Ukraine

Mar31

Conflict Management in Ukraine

Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 15:43 (EEST) Section: International Institute for Strategic Studies (UK)

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Ukraine Pond

Mar04

Ukraine Pond

Friday, March 4, 2016 - 10:36 (EEST) Section: International Institute for Strategic Studies (UK)

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