Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Minsk agreement: one year of shadow boxing
The conflict is likely to remain in its present, not fully frozen state, with all the negative consequences that entails for the Donbass, the rest of Ukraine, and Russia. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Political instability adversely affects the hryvnia exchange rate
Director of Economic Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Vasyl Yurchyshyn encourages not to draw direct parallels between the depreciation of the hryvnia and the words of the head of the National Bank of Ukraine that currently there are no sufficient grounds for the revaluation of the national currency, informs the website Segodnia. “I am not sure...
Everything you need to know about the UN secretary-general race (part 1)
The first part of the series outlines how the race is run, who is agitating, and what their interests are. Part 2 will handicap the field of early secretary-general contenders, from a 39 year-old Montenegrin wunderkind to Australia’s own Kevin Rudd. Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer recently warned about the absence of global leadership,...
Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good: The Case of Belarus
On February 1, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Sochi. The meeting was not planned in advance: Lukashenka had reportedly only called his Russian counterpart on January 28 to request this engagement. This puzzled political commentators. After all, the two heads of state met on December 15 and...
Germany Asks Ukraine To Boost Debt Terms After Russia Rebuff
February 10, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Where is Ukraine’s Government Headed Now? Four Possible Scenarios
Ukraine’s ongoing political crisis offers observers an opportunity to analyze the current state of affairs and determine likely scenarios for the country’s political future in the near term.First, the recent resignation of Aivaras Abromavicius from the position of Minister of Economic Development and Trade did not appear to be...
Germany and the Eastern Partnership After the Ukraine Crisis
The conflict in and about Ukraine has catapulted the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) into the limelight of international attention. Belittled as a bureaucratic and technical policy instrument, the European Neighbourhood Policy and the EaP as its Eastern regional dimension have within the course of a few months gained unexpected...
5 questions every presidential candidate should answer on the global economy
Recent turbulence in the international financial markets suggests that the global economy may see a significant downturn running up to the November elections. That in turn could have major implications for the US economic recovery, as well as the election.Our 2016 presidential candidates must weigh the following five issues, and be able to...
With world in disorder, time is ripe for a US-UK-Japan trilateral
The global diplomatic community is again promising serious sanctions against North Korea for its latest missile launch. Meanwhile, the Pentagon belatedly announces it will quadruple its defense budget for European activities, in the face of continued Russian interventionism in Ukraine, while doubling its budget for anti-ISIS operations. These are...
A New Cold War?
Wed24FebInvitation OnlyResearch EventA New Cold War?24 Feb 2016 – 10:30 to 12:00Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, Promise and Realism in Relations With RussiaParticipantsRobet Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Columbia University;...
