Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
End of a NATO era?
The Ukrainian crisis has been keeping the Harper government busy. Ottawa has unequivocally condemned Moscow’s actions; at the G20 summit last November, Stephen Harper reportedly told Russian President Vladimir Putin to “get out of Ukraine.” Deeds followed words: six CF-18 fighter jets have been sent to join the NATO mission policing the...
Why Are Former Leaders of Saakashvili’s UNM Trying to Kill the Party?
The executive secretary of the opposition faction United National Movement (UNM), Zurab Japaridze, unexpectedly announced, on May 25, he was leaving the party (Georgiatoday.ge, May 28). Former Georgian president and UNM chairman Mikheil Saakashvili left the country over a year ago to avoid criminal charges that were brought against him by state...
Ukrainian Government Enlists Georgian Talent
President Petro Poroshenko and the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk have invited a significant number of foreign experts to take up government posts and design the reforms in Ukraine. Appointing and naturalizing foreign officials to such an extent is unprecedented in the post-communist, post-Soviet countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It helps...
Russia and its Northern Neighbors: Young Leaders on the Future of Baltic Security
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 10:00 am – 11:30 am Johns Hopkins University – SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building, Room 500 1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036 Russia’s actions in Ukraine have sparked new concerns about the security of neighboring countries in the Baltic region. Despite being often grouped together as the Baltic States,...
Greece and Rick’s Sovereign Debt Café
“Greece to withhold E300 million loan repayment” (Financial Times lead headline today). I am shocked, shocked to find that default is going on in Rick’s Sovereign Debt Café!A week ago, the FT helpfully provided an instructive table of the huge losses, or “haircuts,” taken by the credulous bondholders in a dozen sovereign debt defaults...
Hardening Of Positions Undercuts Ukraine Peace Accord
June 5, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Ukraine’s Most Hopeful City: Lviv
June 5, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russian IS Recruit Stopped in Turkey, Chechnya Rights Group Attacked
Plus, Canada’s leader says Putin’s Russia should stay out of G-7 and Bosnia embraces the pope’s visit. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Overcoming the Ukraine Crisis
Memories of the twentieth century’s great conflicts, from 1930s pacifism to Cold War antagonism, are stirring again, motivating both Russia and the West in one of the gravest threats to global order and European stability in the past 25 years. Indeed, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine involves nuclear-armed powers whose collective military...
The G7 Needs to Commit to Supporting Ukraine
BERLIN—When G7 leaders meet for their annual summit in Germany this weekend, for a second year without Russia, President Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine will rank high on their agenda. Though questions of war and peace may seem misplaced in what is, essentially, an economic policy forum, the escalation in Eastern Europe, and the...
