Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Merkel in Munich
The German chancellor has made clear that Berlin will neither provide weapons to Ukraine nor give up its diplomatic attempts to end the conflict in the country’s east. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Global Economics Monthly: February 2015
Steven A. Tananbaum Senior Fellow for International Economics Robert Kahn argues that with sovereign debt woes in Greece and Ukraine testing markets and governments, now might be the time for policymakers to rethink the architecture for resolving debt crises. …read more Source: Council on Foreign...
Weak momentum in Euro Area growth continues in winter 2015
Euro Area growth remains weak in the winter 2014/2015 according to the Eurogrowth Indicator calculated by the Euroframe group in February. The forecast quarter-to-quarter growth rate for the fourth quarter of 2014 is 0.3 per cent, unchanged from the January estimation. The forecast growth rate for the first quarter of 2015 inched up by 0.1...
Ukrainian Democracy After the Maidan: Threats and Opportunities
The Global Europe Program is pleased to host the 10th Annual Ion Ratiu Democracy Award Workshop on Ukrainian Democracy After the Maidan featuring keynote remarks the 2014 recipient of the Ion Ratiu Democracy Award, Mustafa Nayyem, a journalist, democracy activist and Parliamentarian in Ukraine. Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center...
What We’re Reading 02/06: A Weekly List of Our Program Directors’ Must-See Media
Filed in Blog Topics: What We’re Reading How can closing the education gap positively impact the economy? Why does ISIS support vaccinations (even while forbidding other humanitarian efforts)? What immediate action can the US take to help Ukraine? Programs at the Aspen Institute have been scouring their respective issue areas to find and...
How to Start a Proxy War with Russia
On Wednesday, Ashton Carter, the president’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, made headlines [4] when he told Congress that he was “very much inclined” to arm the Ukrainian troops in order to combat pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Meanwhile in Munich, Waiting for Merkel
Angela Merkel’s visit to Moscow for peace talks on the Ukraine crisis could be the last diplomatic attempt to end the fighting in the country’s east. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Seeming Truce Opens Humanitarian Corridor in Ukraine, NATO Plans New Rapid Response Force
Plus, devaluation speculation runs rampant in Kazakhstan, and a bombing reopens a Georgia police-brutality case. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Breaking trust
This editorial will be published in the February 16 edition of The Weekly Standard.At what point do we—the institution and our nation—lose our soldiers’ trust? The trust that we will provide them the right resources—the training and equipment—to properly prepare them and lead them into harm’s way. Trust that we will appropriately take...
Amid Escalated War, U.S. Weighs Defensive Weapons for Ukraine
France & Germany Use Specter of a Better-Armed Ukraine to Press Putin The Obama administration has announced no decision on whether to help Ukraine use US-made weapons to defend itself against Russian-sponsored attacks. But France and Germany are probing to see whether that threat alone might be enough to push Russian President Vladimir...
