Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Whither the West: A New Beginning
The Center is now in its fourth year, a truly remarkable achievement many of us never imagined would come to pass. We’ve had growing pains, and we’ve published some great authors, some of whom have gone on to other endeavors. But as much as we’ve changed, the world has changed more. When we began, we had three great questions...
Victory Day for China?
May 11, 2015 | By Konstantin Avramov While Putin has touted Russia’s pivot to the East, it is China who is reaping all of the benefits. The May 9th Victory Day celebration in Moscow was a familiar sight for those accustomed with the practice of determining the Soviet hierarchy by watching officials’ placement on top of Lenin’s...
Webinar on Political Economy of Ukraine
On 2 April CASE broadcasted a first webinar on the up-to-date topics relating to CEE countries: http://emerging-europe.com/webinars/webinar-4-2/The webinar was dedicated to the Political Economy of Ukraine. The speakers were:Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, Chairman of the CASE Advisory Council;Oleh...
Is Radical Nationalism in Russia Getting Out of Control?
Radical nationalism has long been one of the leading threats to Russia’s national security. However, in recent years, and especially during the Ukraine crisis, the Kremlin has tried to co-opt the nationalists to use them to mobilize the population. At the moment, according to Donald Jensen, resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic...
Ukraine Erases Communist Reminders Amid Efforts to Shake Soviet Yoke
May 12, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
How Russia’s Opposition United To Finish Nemtsov’s Report On Ukraine
May 12, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
The death of Europe? Continental fates after Ukraine
The unravelling of the post-Cold War security order in Europe was both cause and consequence of the crisis in Ukraine. The crisis was a symptom of the three-fold failure to achieve the aspirations to create a ‘Europe whole and free’ enunciated by the Charter of Paris in 1990, the drift in the European Union’s behaviour from normative...
The false promise of continental concert: Russia, the West and the necessary balance of power
The war in Ukraine is revelatory of a malaise in Europe’s security order created by Russia’s resistance to western institutions on the one hand and the western desire to maintain these institutions while partnering with Russia on the other. Absent a sense of priorities, western policy risks contributing to the erosion of...
The Budapest Memorandum and Russia’s intervention in Ukraine
Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States extended security assurances to Ukraine in December 1994 in an agreement that became known as the Budapest Memorandum. This agreement was part of a package of arrangements whereby Ukraine transferred the Soviet-made nuclear weapons on its territory to Russia and acceded to the Treaty on the...
Macedonia Charges 30 Over Weekend Attack, Posthumous Nemtsov Report Released
Plus, China loans billions to Belarus; Turkmenistan inks economic deals with Iran amid revived talk of a gas pipeline to Europe. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
