Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Will the West Bail out Ukraine?
The war in Ukraine’s eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk did not stop when 2014 came to a close. Therefore, the $27 billion two-year assistance package, promised to Ukraine by the West last May, has turned out to be insufficient to keep the country afloat. In mid-February 2015, the leading industrial nations and international financial...
The Normandy Format and Ukraine: Doing More Harm Than Good
The foreign affairs ministers of Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine—the “Normandy Four” countries—met on February 24, in Paris, to review the situation in Ukraine’s east. Russian and proxy forces had captured Ukraine’s Debaltseve area on February 18, breaching the armistice signed at the “Normandy Four” summit in Minsk on February...
Getting colder: Cooperating with Russia in the Arctic
Is it possible to isolate the well-established mode of Arctic cooperation from the disruptive impact of the Ukraine crisis? Many stake-holders in cooperative projects with Russia keep insisting on an affirmative answer and seek to bracket out tensions emanating from such obscure locations as Debaltsevo or Mariupol. The European Union (EU), which...
Greek PM may not give Greek parliament a vote on bailout extension
Greek PM may not give Greek parliament a vote on bailout extensionGreek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he will decide in the next 48 hours whether to allow the Greek parliament to vote on the extension of the country’s financial assistance programme, following concerns about dissent in his own party. In a vote held behind closed...
Germany’s Real Role in the Ukraine Crisis
In his discussion of German foreign policy’s supposed drift eastward, Hans Kundnani (“Leaving the West Behind,” January/February 2015) suggests that Germany has resisted imposing sanctions on Russia over its undeclared war with Ukraine—a sign, in his view, that Germany might once again desert the West in a flirtation with...
Inequalities in a globalized economy
Language English The current mainstream economic debate on inequalities is determined mainly by the situation in individual high-income economies. We also talk about the problem in the context of crisis of a traditional welfare state, bearing in mind original inefficiencies, consequences of population aging, and consequences of globalization –...
Inside Ukraine
Watch this meeting live on Monday, March 2, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. (ET). Experts dissect Ukraine’s politics, policies, and options going forward. …read more Source: Council on Foreign...
The Risk Of Not Moving Quickly To Develop A New U.S. Rocket Motor
Last year, as Moscow began its campaign to conquer the Ukraine and relations between the West and Russia deteriorated, the U.S. Senate passed a law forbidding the U.S. military from buying additional launch services from any company using Russian-designed or [Read More…]The post The Risk Of Not Moving Quickly To Develop A New U.S. Rocket...
CASE w pierwszej trójce najlepszych think-tanków w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej
Language Polish CASE – Centrum Analiz Społeczno-Ekonomicznych ma zaszczyt powiadomić, że po raz kolejny znalazło się na szczycie listy Global Think Tanks To Go, nie tylko wśród instytucji znajdujących się w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej, ale także w kategoriach: polityka społeczna, małe ośrodki analityczne, rozwój międzynarodowy oraz...
Ukraine Can Stabilize the Hryvnia
This week, Ukraine has been hit by currency panic. The exchange rate of the hryvnia has plummeted and Ukrainians have rushed to buy whatever they could for their hryvnias. Op-ed by Anders Åslund. …read more Source: Peterson Institute for International...
