Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Risks of Delayed Lustrations
Ukraine’s lustration process has given rise to much unfavorable criticism and triggered heated discussion. IMR advisor Ekaterina Mishina analyzes the experience of lustration, or the purging of government officials previously associated with the Communist Party, in the post-Soviet space and points out its risks in Ukraine. …read more...
Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback?
New volume examines how authoritarian regimes have become smarter The late Samuel Huntington, a Harvard political scientist, famously talked about democratization as a series of wave motions forward and backward. Scholars label the burst of democratization in Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s as the Third Wave. The...
A View from Luhansk: Waiting for War to Return
Luhansk Oblast – Ukrainians are waiting for war to start again. Since a ceasefire agreement went into effect in February, the winter has been relatively quiet in Luhansk Oblast, marred only by sporadic rockets fired from the territory of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR). In many respects, life appears oddly normal in the small...
6 Troops Killed by Rebels Despite Cease-Fire in Eastern Ukraine
April 14, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Rival Factions in Ukraine Are Urged to Withdraw Heavy Weapons
April 14, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
In Poland, a Tragedy of Negligence, a Legacy of Blame
Five years after the Smolensk crash, the most pressing lessons seem not to have been learned. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Fires Ravage Siberia, Hungarian Far-Right Party in Landmark Election Win
Plus, Russian bikers rile Poles with a planned rally to Berlin, and associates of dead Kazakhstani dissident Rakhat Aliev go on trial in Vienna. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
What Russian Students Learn About Russia’s Enemies
Warmed-over conspiracy theories and the battle of ideas. From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
What Did Tsipras and Putin Gain From Their Meeting in Moscow
The Ukraine crisis has made Europeans see Greek foreign policy as particularly threatening and divisive. In reality, Greece is simply acting in line with its long-standing political traditions. The question of European unity still lies in the hands of Brussels and Berlin | Русский …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Polish-German split: A storm in a teacup?
The crisis in Ukraine tested relations between Poland and Germany – but how serious are the divisions? …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
