Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
NATO Must Survive
North Atlantic Council meeting at NATO headquarters, 2018, photo via NATO Flickr CCBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,374, December 17, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent urgent push by NATO to provide a defensive framework to Poland and the Baltic states is by no means a false alarm intended merely to shore up a sense of common purpose during...
Civilian Crisis Management: Assessing the Readiness of EU Member States and Institutions
In: IAI CommentariesCivilian Crisis Management: Assessing the Readiness of EU Member States and InstitutionsIssue: 19|67Civilian Crisis Management: Assessing the Readiness of EU Member States and Institutions Nicoletta Pirozzi and Francesco Musi* The civilian dimension of conflict prevention, conflict resolution and post-conflict stabilisation...
Straightening Out Russian Foreign Policy
Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, 2017, photo via Office of the President of RussiaBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,372, December 15, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Russian foreign policy since the mid-2000s tends to be perceived in contradictory terms: as either a negative for Russia or the product of a grand strategic...
The United States Should Not Act Like It’s the Only Country Facing Foreign Interference
“Right now, Russia’s security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them.” This stark warning from former National Security Council official Fiona Hill—during impeachment hearings in the U.S. Congress—serves as a sharp reminder of the threat to...
Unpacking the China-Russia ‘alliance’
By Michael E. O’Hanlon, Adam TwardowskiThe United States appears to be settling in for a protracted period of great power military competition. Ever since Russia seized Crimea and militarily intervened in Ukraine, and as China moved onto islands across the South China Sea while claiming almost all surrounding waterways, American defense...
The United States Should Not Act Like it is the Only Country Facing Foreign Interference
“Right now, Russia’s security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them.” This stark warning from former National Security Council official Fiona Hill—during impeachment hearings in the U.S. Congress—serves as a sharp reminder of the threat to...
The United Should Not Act Like it is the Only Country Facing Foreign Interference
“Right now, Russia’s security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them.” This stark warning from former National Security Council official Fiona Hill—during impeachment hearings in the U.S. Congress—serves as a sharp reminder of the threat to...
Results of the Normandy Format Talks for Ukraine: Hope, with Reservations
BY MYKHAILO MINAKOV …read more Source:: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
No breakthrough at the Normandy Four summit in Paris
On 9 December, a meeting of the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany was held in Paris under the so-called “Normandy Format” dedicated to resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine. This was the first such meeting since 2016. The talks of the “Normandy Four” were followed by the first bilateral meeting of the presidents of Russia and...
Whose Coups?
Coups have been one of the greatest threats to democracy. The people elect a daring leader willing to take on the status quo. And then, as in Iran in 1953 or Chile in 1973, the military pushes the leader aside to take control. Sometimes the generals remain in power; sometimes they restore a royal to the throne. Often some external force – a...
