Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
A tale of two tragedies
SuppliedLast week’s release of the Dutch Safety Board’s final report on the downing of MH17 held no surprises. While this essentially technical report had no brief to cast blame for the tragedy, no-one familiar with the evidence seriously doubts that it was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine using a Buk missile system...
How Low Oil Prices Are Hitting Russia, Iran, And Venezuela
Recent oil market shifts spell bad news for a number of countries with economies based on oil. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Uneasy Triangle: The United States, China, and Russia and the New Global Order
Throughout the Cold War era, the triangular relationship formed between the United States, China, and Russia was central to forming modern global order. Today’s geopolitical and economic challenges have brought renewed urgency to understanding the evolving motivations of each of these powers in their relationships with one another. The...
The Multi-Faceted Reality of Italian Foreign Fighters in Ukraine
The clumsy attempt, in mid-September, of an Italian man to allegedly join pro-Russia separatist forces in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas, reignited the issue of Western “volunteers” fighting in this worn-torn country. The would-be Italian combatant for the self-styled separatist “people republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk was arrested by...
America’s Russian nuclear obsession
When the Chinese Communist Party held a huge military parade on Tiananmen Square on September 3, it did more than mark the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Japan. By parading some of China’s most advanced ballistic missiles, it also put America and the world on notice that it has steadily become a major nuclear power. China was jostling...
A three-sided disaster: The American, Russian, and Iranian strategic triangle in Syria
After over four years of fighting, the civil war in Syria is still clearly nowhere near its end. None of the three main power groups—Bashar Assad’s government forces, the Syrian opposition, or the Islamic State (or ISIS)—have been able to obtain a decisive victory. Recent outside interventions haven’t dramatically altered the...
Legal fight looms over Ukraine’s $3bn debt to Russia
October 16, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine and Japan Among Latest Members of U.N. Security Council
October 16, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Is Putin Really as Foolish as We Are?
(Image: Flickr/Republic of Korea) Nixon lied. Surely this is not a shocker. But what’s interesting about the latest revelation concerning Nixon and Vietnam is that the most duplicitous president in U.S. history actually knew that the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia was a dismal failure. Even as Nixon was telling the media that the saturation...
Lessons from Russia for the Future of Sanctions
This brief reviews the development of US and EU sanctions on Russia in 2014 and early 2015. The author also discusses 1) what led US policymakers to develop new sanctions tools to deal with Russia; 2) the extent to which the sanctions affected Russia’s strategy toward Ukraine; and 3) what lessons the US and the EU can learn from their...
