Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Grain comes first: the African peace initiative for Ukraine
On 15–17 June, representatives of seven African countries visited Ukraine and Russia to propose a plan to end the war. The delegation included the presidents of South Africa, Senegal, Zambia and the Comoros (the latter country is currently chairing the African Union), the prime minister of Egypt and representatives of the leaders of Congo and...
The Cyber Domain in the Russo-Ukrainian War
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,203, June 22, 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Cyber attacks have been carried out by both sides in the Ukraine-Russia war to neutralize national infrastructures, banking systems, and government ministries; influence decision-makers, citizens, and soldiers; and gather … …read more Source:: Begin-Sadat Center for...
The new Ukraine will be a country worthy of its heroes
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Putin’s nuclear threats will escalate as Ukraine’s counteroffensive unfolds
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Andriy Yermak on how Ukraine’s friends should step up their support next
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Ukrainian forces continue their offensive in the south. Day 481 of the war
Ukrainian forces are still trying to break the Russian defences in Zaporizhzhia oblast and the western part of Donetsk oblast. They are renewing attacks in the areas south of Velyka Novosilka and south and west of Orikhiv. One site of particularly heavy fighting over the last few days is Piatykhatky, which lies immediately south of the village of...
A Stronger Italian-German Partnership: Closer Cooperation in Time of Energy Crisis
For over a year, Italy and Germany discussed the possibility of signing a common “Action Plan”, an agreement designed to cultivate a practical cooperation between Berlin and Rome in some specific policy fields. The war in Ukraine and the resulting energy challenge are currently at the top of the list. In the energy sector, Italy and Germany face...
The Black Sea as Mare Clausum
The Black Sea is a region of tension. It is the arena of the Russia-NATO confrontation while at the same time serving as a projection area for Russian and Turkish visions of regional order. Turkey’s special role in the region stems primarily from the implementation of the Montreux Convention, which for much of the last century has meant a...
Hacks, Attacks, and Pushing Back: Herb Lin on Cybersecurity
Hacks, Attacks, and Pushing Back: Herb Lin on Cybersecurity Ellen Santiago Tue, 06/20/2023 – 18:40 A cyberattack on a European banking institution, the handiwork of a pro-Russian “hacktivist” collective, may be a preview of the next chapter in the war in Ukraine. Herb Lin, the Hoover Institution’s Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber...
Biden Walks Back on Ukraine’s NATO Accession
If only the US President Joe Biden had a time machine as in the post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, he should have used that vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively backward through time all the way to 1999 when it was that the US lost the plot on European security and Russia’s perennial quest for mutual...