Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Trump Pushed Ukraine’s President To Investigate Issues Of US Public Interest
The misguided ‘impeachment inquiry” develops with the declassification and publication of the whistleblower complaint (pdf) that underlies the case. It alleges what was publicly known even before the phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian President Zelensky was published. During the then still ongoing Mueller investigation Rudi...
The Case for Impeaching Trump Goes Way Beyond Ukraine
“Has Trump finally gone too far?” There’s a headline you’ve seen a thousand times. At last, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says he has. A whistleblower says Trump withheld foreign aid to Ukraine to pressure the country’s new president into investigating Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s past business there. Trump doesn’t even...
For Trump, Regime Change Begins at Home
A month after he won the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump gave a speech in North Carolina where he declared that “we will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.” It’s still commonplace for foreign policy analysts of the left, right, and center to distinguish Trump...
From the Anti-Russia Brouhaha to the Ukraine Brouhaha
Since he became president, Donald Trump has killed thousands of people in Afghanistan and the Middle East in wars that are illegal under our form of government, given that he has never secured the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war to wage such wars. Operating through his military-intelligence forces, he has also...
Ukraine prisoner swap: A sign of hope or desperation?
The West is drawing the wrong lessons from Ukraine’s exchange of prisoners with Russia. It now risks rushing Kyiv into an unstable ‘resolution’ to the conflict in Donbas …read more Source:: European Council on Foreign...
Moscow Has Limited Options in Belarus
26 September 2019 John Lough …read more Source:: Chatham...
Trump Frees Himself From Bolton – but Robert O’Brien Will Be Just as Bad
After months of rumors, John Bolton was finally fired from the White House but the post mortem on why it took so long to remove him continues, with the punditry and media trying to understand exactly what happened and why. Perhaps the most complete explanation for what occurred came from President Donald Trump himself shortly after the fact. He...
Smoking Gun? Impeachment Blows Up In Democrat Faces…Again!
Just as the Democratic Party was gearing up for a good, old-fashioned impeachment – something they’ve been desperate for since Trump was elected – the release of the transcript of the phone call between Trump and the Ukraine president has fizzled their hopes. Again. There is no “there” there and again the Democrats...
Ukraine’s Decentralization Reforms Since 2014: Initial Achievements and Future Challenges
25 September 2019 Since the Euromaidan protests of 2013-14, Ukraine has conducted a political decentralization process that seeks to fundamentally restructure centre–periphery relations. This paper outlines the achievements and shortcomings of decentralization and highlights a window of opportunity for completing the first phase of reforms....
Another Day, Another Scandal. What the ‘Trump-Ukraine Collusion’ Is Really About
This is soooooo boring. For nearly a week, Washington has been consumed by reports that Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up dirt on Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. The furor began on Wednesday, Sept. 18, when the Washington Post disclosed that Trump had said something to an unknown foreign leader that “was so...
