Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Intellectual Roots of Putin’s Nationalism and Ideology
Maria Snegovaya will discuss the intellectual trends that influenced Vladimir Putin’s thinking and partly served as an intellectual underpinning for the annexation of Crimea, the corresponding radical shift of Russia’s international doctrine, and the recent transformation of Russia’s post-Soviet identity. She will discuss the...
Ukraine Crisis Update: July 15, 2015
Download the PDF Separatists continued to target Ukrainian forces with heavy weapons and small reconnaissance units across the front line in Donbas as both Ukrainian and separatist leaders combatted new internal security threats. Tags Ukraine Project UkrainePromote …read more Source: Institute for the Study of...
Europe yesterday, Beijing today: Russia’s bad romance
Looking at the global chessboard, one can’t help but be puzzled. Only yesterday, Russia was dating Europe; today, the Kremlin is trying to persuade the world (and itself?) that it has fallen in love with Beijing. Witness Russia’s hosting last week of the dual summit of the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization—a clear signal...
Why Is AGRI Back on Europe’s Energy Security Agenda?
The Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector (AGRI)—a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, which aims to bring Azerbaijani gas and, in the future, gas from Turkmenistan to Romania and Hungary by way of Georgia and across the Black Sea—was at the center of attention of regional decision makers late last month. In particular, an AGRI Ministerial...
Earth to Russia. Come Back to Reality.
The conflict in Ukraine highlights dangerous trends in Russian foreign policy. Russian-backed separatists and the Russian military have killed thousands of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Ukraine. It’s the starkest example of Moscow’s neo-imperialist foreign policy so far. However, even more worrisome trends have...
ISIS’s Global Strategy: A Wargame
Download the PDF The United States currently faces multiple national security threats in an environment of growing disorder. ISIS is executing a sophisticated global strategy that involves simultaneous efforts in Iraq and Syria, the Middle East and North Africa, and the wider world. Homegrown terrorism is increasing in the U.S. and Europe. Civil...
Radio Free Acton: John Horvat on Order; Samuel Gregg on Chaos
In this edition of Radio Free Acton, we speak with John Horvat, author of Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society, about what’s gone wrong with our economy and culture and how to fix it. John’s book was featured this year at Acton University (you can pick up a copy for yourself at the link above), and...
There is no sign that some massive military campaign in Donbas has begun
Pro-Russian rebels mounted one of the heaviest attacks on government troops since a February peace accord, Ukraine said, as the two sides blamed each other for a surge in fighting in the country’s east, the Bloomberg writes. “There’s no sign that some massive military campaign has begun,” Yuriy Yakymenko, an analyst at the Razumkov...
High Court Weakens Russia’s European Treaty Obligations, EU and Macedonia Clinch Deal on …
Plus, a huge leak exposes Italian spyware firm’s state clients across the region; what’s behind the spate of Russian military plane crashes? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Evaluating President Obama’s statements on the nuclear deal
President Obama’s statements are in bold.Because of this deal, Iran will remove two-thirds of its installed centrifugesThis statement is not really accurate. Something like that proportion of installed centrifuges will be “uninstalled,” but they will still be extant in Iran, monitored by the IAEA. So “removed” is rather stronger than is...
