Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Victory Day and Belarus’s Diplomatic Offensive
On May 9, Belarus celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. According to Emmanuel Ioffe, an authoritative Minsk historian (no relation to this author), the overall number of Belarus’s casualties in that war amounted to 3,074,000, whereas the country’s population on the eve of war was 9,183,000, within current...
Donetsk, Luhansk ‘People’s Republics’ Seek International Legitimization Through Local Elections (Part One)
The possible international recognition of “elections” staged in the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” (“DPR, LPR”) is one of the major innovations of the Minsk Two armistice agreement on Ukraine. It is Moscow’s innovation, with Germany and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on board. From 1991 to...
Six Recommendations to Strengthen the Ukraine-NATO Partnership
Introduction The year 1997 might not necessarily be engraved in our collective memory as a moment of great historical shift. Some might remember U.S. President Bill Clinton’s second inauguration, or Great Britain handing back Hong Kong to China. But arguably for European geopolitics, 1997 was a year of enormous significance. That was when...
Waking up to Geopolitics: A New Trajectory to Japan-Europe Relations
This report argues that the coming years provide a window of opportunity for Europe and Japan to put their relationship on a new trajectory. While the inhibiting factors for both sides have not vanished, they have certainly receded. While the military dimensions of Beijing’s stance in the East China Sea loom large, driving Japan to further...
A Military ‘Pivot to Asia’
As China reclaims land in the South China Sea, the US sends in spy planes to buzz the construction. China warns the US to leave them alone. US, with bases all over the South China Sea area, objects to what it views as Chinese military activity in the region. Is this Obama’s “Pivot to Asia”? Or a diversion from the failed wars...
Riga’s missed opportunity
“I think this is going to be a good day for the European Union and for each of the six partners,” said Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs, at the opening of her meeting today with leaders of countries in the EU’s Eastern neighborhood at the just-concluded EU Summit in Riga,...
Back to the drawing board on Ukraine?
John Maynard Keynes famously remarked that “When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” One has to wonder whether the same might not be asked of the International Monetary Fun (IMF) in relation to its Ukrainian lending program. For as each day passes, it appears that the basic economic and political assumptions underlying that...
Evidence Mounts of Russian Action in Ukraine, Serbian Defense Chief Accused of Corruption
Plus, the Kremlin says the West is destabilizing Macedonia, and Kyrgyzstan joins the Eurasian Union. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Chrystia Freeland on Ukraine’s struggle for independence
“What is happening in Ukraine is a tremendous threat to Putin’s Russia precisely because of the kinship that Russians feel with Ukraine,” says Chrystia Freeland in this podcast. Freeland, a Member of Parliament in Canada and also a journalist and author, talks about her own family’s connection to Ukraine, why the Russian propaganda...
Anders Åslund, światowy ekspert w dziedzinie ekonomii politycznej Ukrainy i Rosji, członkiem Rady Atlantyckiej
Anders Åslund, światowej sławy specjalista ds. ekonomii politycznej Ukrainy i Rosji i przewodniczący Rady Naukowej CASE, został nominowany na Senior Fellow w Radzie Atlantyckiej. Dr. Åslund specjalizuje się w systemach ekonomicznych Europy Wschodniej i służył jako doradca ekonomiczny w kilku krajach. Ostatnio został wyznaczony przez prezydenta...
