Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
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...
Russia Proposes a Yalta-2 Geopolitical Tradeoff to Solve the Ukrainian Crisis
As the Ukraine crisis deepens and European countries increasingly worry about the possibility of an all-out confrontation with Russia, the Kremlin has begun to make public the basic conditions of an overall political solution that could stabilize and deescalate the standoff. This week (February 25), Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin, 60, a member of...
Ukraine Caught in the Straitjacket of Negotiating Formats
The political and military terms of the Minsk Two agreement (February 12) and capture of Debaltseve by Russia’s proxies breaching the ceasefire (February 18) show the extent of Ukraine’s entrapment into Russia’s conflict stratagems. Russia has set those traps; the existing international system shows no way out for Ukraine; while...
Propaganda Theater and the Anti-Maidan Rally in Moscow
An estimated 32,000 people turned out for an “anti-Maidan” rally in Moscow on Saturday, February 21. The Russian march, condemning the Ukrainian government and its war in the country’s east, began on Moscow’s central Petrovka Street and ended at Revolution Square. The demonstration, which had been approved by the authorities, was...
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...
