Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The State of the War
The situation for civilians in Eastern Ukraine is dire …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Weak government, strong society
In post-Maidan Ukraine, failing governmental action is substituted by voluntary work. While the Ukrainian state is failing in many aspects, Ukrainian society is very strong. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Kyiv and the regions
Ukraine has been an over-centralised state since its independence from the Soviet Union, but now the notion of “decentralisation” has taken hold in even tiny villages. …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Another late night meeting fails to find agreement on Greece
Another late night meeting fails to find agreement on GreeceGreek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said his five-hour meeting last night with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Eurogroup Chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem was “constructive”, adding that he believed an agreement was “in sight” but called on the creditors to be “realistic”....
Europe Cannot Afford to Wobble Over Ukraine
European leaders should not be tempted into believing that Russia has been humiliated since the breakup of the Soviet Union. The price of such thinking would be incalculable. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Ukraine Fails to Make Shale Gas Breakthrough
Ukraine’s hopes to cut its dependence on gas imports from Russia through shale gas development have been dashed. The two multinationals that won government tenders to develop non-traditional gas deposits in Ukraine, Chevron and Shell, stopped their works last year, and there is no clarity about possible shale gas development in western...
Does Russia’s ‘Hybrid War’ Really Exist?
In the early stages of the Russian military operation to annex Crimea, in February–March 2014, the level of surprise triggered in Kyiv and in Western capitals caused many journalists and analysts to seek ways to conceptualize Russia’s military and security power. The success and speed of the operation, and especially the lack of any...
Humiliation as a Tool of Blackmail
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The American Interest. Russia today is a country trying to retain its great power status not by dint of success or dynamism or progress, but by cultivating a sense of grievance and resentment. Perhaps the most ominous expression of this Russian “humiliation syndrome” is to be found in...
Why Saakashvili’s Appointment as Odesa’s Governor Actually Makes Perfect Sense
On May 30, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko named former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili Governor of the Odesa region. There are a number of ways to interpret the bold move, but two historical analogies may be more apt: Saakashvili is either following in Duke de Richelieu’s footsteps as an outside Governor of Odesa or the late...
Stumbling towards conflict with Russia?
When Rip Van Winkle fell into a deep sleep and awoke 20 years later, he found that his world had changed almost beyond recognition. But, were today’s Rip Van Winkle to sleep for no more than a year and a half, he would awake to a radically different Russian-American relationship—and not just different, but dangerous to the point where...
