Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Western leaders must be honest about what it takes to stand up to Putin
By Constanze StelzenmüllerDuring major international championships, Germany — as a popular saying has it — is home to 82 million football trainers. (This columnist prefers basketball.) In the pandemic, it was a nation of impassioned virologists. Since the beginning of the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine in late February, it seems that every...
IMR’s statement on the situation in Ukraine
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Media pivots back to Covid – prelude to a Ukraine false flag?
Over the past month, the mainstream media has focused on the Russian military intervention in Ukraine which launched in response to the eight year long war on the breakaway pro-Russian Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Numerous attempts had been made by Moscow to resolve the situation peacefully – specifically, calls for Kiev to implement its...
The Ukraine war’s impact on developing countries
By Indermit Gill, David DollarIndermit Gill, vice president for equitable growth, finance, and institutions at the World Bank and a Brookings nonresident senior fellow, talks with host David Dollar about how economic growth in developing countries has been affected by COVID and now the war in Ukraine. Gill explains that pre-existing...
War in Eastern Ukraine Lessons learned so far from the Ukraine conflict
The interpretation of the Ukraine conflict is contested and part of the global competition between autocratic and open societies. Russia claims a special status in international relations, a privileged sphere of influence in the post-Soviet space, it turns towards Asia and away from Europe. “The West”, meanwhile, wants to draw the...
Washington Is Delirious With War Fever — For No Reason Of Homeland Security
Economic, social and political dangers abound. That’s because Washington and its subservient mainstream media are delirious with war fever like at no time in the last seven decades. The resulting reckless pursuit of an unhinged Sanctions War against Russia poses a dire threat to the global economy and domestic prosperity and does so for no...
Sanctions: Tightening the noose on Russia
The words of Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, were as provocative as accurate—it is indeed a “total economic and financial war” that has been launched against Russia. What is at stake goes beyond Ukraine, since it is about finding out whether economic retaliations can make an aggressor… …read more Source::...
The Perceptions of Robert Jervis: An Appreciation
by Ken Booth and Nicholas J. Wheeler As we write this appreciation of Robert Jervis, weeks after his death at the end of 2021, media outlets are full of stories of major powers readying themselves for the expansion of a war across the Russia-Ukraine border. TV news reports soldiers, tanks, warships, and aircraft carrying out […] …read more...
Brookings President John R. Allen on Russia, Ukraine, China, and leading the Institution forward
By John R. Allen, Fred DewsIn this final episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, John R. Allen, president of the Brookings Institution, offers his views on Russia’s war on Ukraine—including the February 4 joint statement between Russia and China; on China’s continued ambitions for global leadership; and on the role of the...
America Must Get Ready: Russia Is Trying To Grow Its Influence In Africa (From 1945)
The Russian assault on Ukraine marks the informal end to the so-called post-Cold War international order. In truth, Russia and China have been working to undermine extant global political architecture for years. The U.S. government must recognize that the challenge [Read More…] The post America Must Get Ready: Russia Is Trying To Grow Its...
