Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine’s New Constitution: Devolution of Powers and the Rule of Law
04NovInvitation OnlyResearch EventUkraine’s New Constitution: Devolution of Powers and the Rule of Law4 Nov 2015 – 11:00 to 12:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, London Russia and Eurasia Programme, Ukraine ForumParticipantsNataliia Agafonova, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Head, Sub-Committee on...
Minister for Foreign Affairs The Hon Julie Bishop MP Address to the AIIA
Distinguished guests, ambassadors, my colleague the Honourable Bronwyn Bishop, ladies and gentlemen, it is an absolute pleasure to be here today among so many respected names in foreign affairs. The Australian Institute of International Affairs is one of our nation’s premier think tanks and contributes a great deal to the development and...
Charting Japan’s Arctic strategy
Event Information October 19, 2015 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDTSaul/Zilkha Rooms Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036 Register for the Event Japan’s presence in the Arctic is not new, but it has been limited mostly to scientific research. Japan has stepped up its engagement after it gained observer status...
This is how to rebuild America’s mighty military
The Obama Administration has pronounced itself shocked and surprised by Vladimir Putin’s Syrian gambit, just as they did when Russian troops and proxies annexed Crimea. Just as the George W. Bush Administration did when Putin moved into two provinces of Georgia in 2008.Indeed, much of the history of the post-Cold War world can be told in...
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...
