Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Debating Yad Vashem
Hall of Names, Yad Vashem, image via Yad VashemBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,891, January 18, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent attempt by PM Netanyahu to appoint former IDF general and cabinet minister Effi Eitam as chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center has stirred a heated public debate about the Center’s...
Can Burns Change the CIA?
In nominating former Deputy Secretary of State William Burns to be CIA director, President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a highly experienced diplomat to lead a hydra-headed agency. But, if past is precedent, the highest hydras who head calcified fiefdoms at CIA can be expected to resist any real control from the top. They are more likely to try to...
The Nightingale of Ukraine: Station Kharkiv Offers a Message of Hope
For over a decade now, Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation has been strengthening regional cooperation, civil society, and democratic foundations in the countries of the Black Sea region. As part of the Fast Response COVID-19 program, BST funded the NGO Kharkiv Station for its complex response to the crisis—support, on one hand, to the...
Knives Out: Boycott, Purge, and Prosecute
The Biden administration has promised to promote unity when it takes office later this month. That’s an excellent message after four years of deliberate provocation and polarization coming from the Trump administration. But the incoming administration must also draw a clear line between what is and is not acceptable political behavior. And...
Ron Paul Institute Year End Report
Dear Friends: What a strange year this has been. The assaults on our liberty have come at such a furious pace and it looks as if there is no end in sight. The mainstream media has become so unreliable that it is almost self-parody. Big Tech is determined to silence any voices challenging the status quo. In fact, just last week an episode of our...
Biden and Russia: Pressure, But Not Too Much
Joe Biden, photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia CommonsBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,858, December 28, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: As the world awaits Joe Biden’s inauguration as president of the US, Washington’s relations with China are under primary scrutiny. However, ties with Russia are no less important, as the two states have...
Differentiation in EU Foreign and Security Policy: EU Lead Groups in the Iranian Nuclear Dispute and the Ukraine Crisis
Since the creation of the EU, there have been instances in which a restricted number of member states have handled an issue of international security on behalf of the Union. While controversial, these “lead groups” have been a valuable practice. They can enable a European response in the context of urgent conflict management and complex...
Building Resilient, Sustainable, and Integrated Economies in the Eastern Partnership Countries
This blog was written by members of the Policy Designers Network (PDN), a fellowship program that empowers young policy professionals from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine to advance democracy and economic development, to expand their knowledge about regional, European, and transatlantic issues, and to strengthen their networks. During the...
Snow job! SolarWinds ‘Russian hack’ story proves the media writes US foreign policy, not the White House
As incoming nominees of a future Biden administration have stopped short in naming a culprit in the SolarWinds hack, the media – playing judge, jury and executioner – has levelled blame on the usual suspect. Did anyone actually believe that Russia would escape a major US election season without a ceremonial tarring and feathering by the media?...
A More Robust Russia Policy for the EU
Since the annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of the war in Eastern Ukraine in spring 2014, the EU has largely been in crisis-management mode vis-à-vis Russia. During the past six years, it has become clear that Russia’s actions towards Ukraine are not a stand-alone crisis, but rather the expression of a policy that violates the...
