Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Moskau zieht zusätzliche Truppen nahe der Ukraine und auf der Krim wieder ab
Militärische Großübungen im Umfeld von Krisengebieten dienen nicht nur der Ausbildung. Mit ihnen senden Staaten politische Signale. Solche Manöver verstärken Bedrohungsperzeptionen und bergen die Gefahr der Eskalation. Als Moskau ab Ende März 2021 seine Truppenpräsenz östlich der Ukraine und auf der Krim erhöhte, warnten der ukrainische...
Who Suffers Most From Russian Tourism Sanctions Against Turkey?
Russia imposed a tourism ban on Turkey in apparent retribution for Turkey’s support of Ukraine. But the travel sanctions may be an own goal. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
How the West reacted to Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly
On April 21, Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to Russia’s Federal Assembly. Instead of making a big announcement (like in his 2014 Crimea speech) as was predicted by many experts against the backdrop of Russian military buildup at Ukraine’s border, the Russian president mainly drew upon domestic and social affairs. IMR has...
War Time: Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power
War Time: Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power Book dora.popova 22 February 2021 A series of prolonged and unsuccessful wars waged in recent decades by the United States and its allies have contributed to intense debate on a ‘decline of the West.’ In War Time, war studies experts examine this trajectory of Western military...
War Time: Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power
War Time: Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power Book dora.popova 22 February 2021 A series of prolonged and unsuccessful wars waged in recent decades by the United States and its allies have contributed to intense debate on a ‘decline of the West.’ In War Time, war studies experts examine this trajectory of Western military...
Russia and the Costs of EU Foreign Policy Division
The recent visit of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell to Moscow and its aftermath has shown how immature EU foreign policy still is. The EU needs to learn from this affair to start rebuilding a foreign policy consensus and overcome costly divisions. The start of a new U.S. administration, the departure...
Why Victoria Nuland Is Dangerous and Should Not Be Confirmed
Victoria Nuland exemplifies the neocons who have led US foreign policy from one disaster to another for the past 30 years while evading accountability. It is a bad sign that President Joe Biden has nominated Victoria Nuland for the third highest position at the State Department, Under Secretary for Political Affairs. As a top-level appointee,...
Reckless Rhetoric Is A Reckless Standard For An Impeachment Trial
Below is my column in the Hill on how the second Trump impeachment could become a trial over reckless rhetoric in America. The House managers may be playing into that very danger by selecting some managers who have been criticized in the past for their own over-heated political rhetoric. As managers were replaying the comments of former President...
Alexei Navalny and Public Dissent in Russia
Alexei Navalny, image via Wikimedia CommonsBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,928, February 11, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The massive protests staged in Russia by supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny pose a serious threat to the country’s political elite. The Kremlin has a problem on its hands no matter what it does. Whether...
EU support for Russian democracy is inadequate
By Constanze Stelzenmüller“A very complicated visit,” was the verdict of the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on his trip to Moscow last week to protest at the jailing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. In a statement published on Sunday, he added: “An aggressively-staged press conference and the expulsion of three EU...
