Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Moscow Promotes Ties Between Cossacks in Southern Russia and Eastern Ukraine
The Cossacks in Stavropol region are struggling with the contradictory goals of serving the Russian state and retaining their identity. The Cossacks try to argue that they have a distinct Cossack identity, but at the same time, they proclaim that their sole purpose of existence is to protect Russia. Cossacks often regard themselves as the...
Poland’s security anxiety: From ‘A Hard Look at Hard Power’
The Strategic Studies Institute recently published A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key U.S. Allies and Security Partners. Edited by Gary J. Schmitt, codirector of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at AEI, and featuring contributions from him, AEI scholar Michael Mazza, and others, it fills critical gaps...
Why a new Cold War can be avoided
All is not well in U.S.-Russia relations. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and aggression in eastern Ukraine—and its new airstrikes in Syria—have brought the two to lows not seen since the Cold War. Presidents Obama and Putin sniping at each other from the rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly only accentuated that divide. But does this...
The Forgotten War: A View From Ukraine’s Frontlines
For a brief moment, it felt like déjà vu. As an officer with the Canadian Armed Forces, I visited several hot spots, witnessing my share of misery and destruction. Now I am in the Donbas, the war-torn region of eastern Ukraine.Since its independence in 1991, Ukraine has struggled to shed its Soviet colonial past and the remaining vestiges of...
Evolution, Not Revolution, Is the Way to Save Ukraine, Says Leading Anti-Corruption Crusader
Russian President Vladimir Putin is pivoting and wants to withdraw from the Donbas but keep Crimea, according to Iegor Soboliev, the head of the Ukrainian parliament’s anti-corruption committee.”He wants to give it back to us right now. He doesn’t need the Donbas,” he said in an interview on October 5.”Unfortunately,...
Nato and the New Arch of Crisis
Conference jointly organized by NATO Public Diplomacy Division, Real Istituto Elcano, IAI and Portuguese Institute of International Relations, on the threats and challenges to euro-atlantic security stemming from the arch of crisis which stretches from Nord Africa to Middle East and Ukraine. …read more Source: Istituto Affari...
The Donbas Black Hole
What Russia hoped would be a small, victorious war has turned into the “geostrategic disaster of a new cold war,” writes Volodymyr Horbulin, a respected foreign policy analyst currently advising Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.In an article in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, Horbulin argues that the main participants in the war have exhausted...
Chernobyl Dead Zone Teeming With Animal Life
Populations of deer, wolves and other big animals have grown dramatically in the absence of human predators since the 1986 disaster. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Zakarpattia – together, but separated
Conflict with Russia has diverted the Kyiv’s attention away from the deterioration of the situation in regions which are not threatened by direct aggression. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Ukraine at the Crossroads – Resolution or Escalation?
…read more Source: German Institute for International and Security...
