Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine News Roundup | November 18
Dealing with Putin: How to Keep US-Russian Tensions from Going Critical via National InterestRussian ‘Deniable Intervention’ in Ukraine: Why and How Russia Broke the Rules via Chatham House Obama Calls Out Russia: ‘You Don’t Invade Other Countries’ via New York TimesPoroshenko Says Ukraine Prepared for ‘Total War’ as...
Ukraine News Roundup | November 14
Now That Russia Has Invaded Ukraine Again, Let’s Stop Pretending a Ceasefire Ever Existed via New RepublicAs Putin’s Threatens Eastern Europe, Ukraine’s Defense Is What Will Contain Him via PoliticoSentenced to Death by a Crowd: Justice Under a Russian-Proxy Warlord of Eastern Ukraine (Video) via Vice News Putin’s Revised...
Government of experts in Ukraine
On 29 August, Ukraine’s parliament voted through Oleksiy Honcharuk’s candidacy for the position of prime minister, together with the composition of the new government (see annex). The new cabinet received the support of the Servant of the People party and a large number of independent deputies (281 votes in total). The number of...
Ukraine’s New Leadership: Opportunities and Risks
Invitation Only Research Event 23 September 2019 – 9:30am to 11:00amAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE …read more Source:: Chatham...
Putin’s 20th Anniversary as the Leader of Russia
Vladimir Putin, image by VABo2040 via PixabayBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,271, August 30, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Vladimir Putin’s government might be proud of many internal as well as foreign achievements, but strategically, Russia has fallen well behind the West. Putin is partly to blame, though titanic shifts in world politics...
How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our government-funded media outlet, has published an article titled “Australian expat living in Hong Kong throws off business suit to join protest movement“. The entire story is in the headline: some random guy, who ABC keeps anonymous but for the name “Daniel”, has joined the protests in Hong Kong....
Ukraine News Roundup | December 4
It’s Not Just Ukraine: Putin Has the Whole Region Cornered via PoliticoPifer: Congress Should OK Arms for Ukraine, but Not Sanctions on Russia via The HillUkrainian Journalists Oppose Kyiv’s New Information Ministry via RFE-RLVideo: Yale Historian Tim Snyder on Ukraine and Us via Chicago Humanities FestivalEuroMaidan One Year Later...
Ukraine News Roundup | November 26
Moldova Votes on Sunday: Will Russia Win That Election? Via BloombergObama Should Say It Clearly: Russia Has Invaded Ukraine via Philadelphia InquirerMerkel Secretly Goes One-On-One with Putin, Hits a Dead-End via ReutersAmid Ukraine’s Crisis, Its High-Tech Industry Is Booming via ForbesPutin Youth: The Young Russians Who See the President...
The Cost of Sanctions on North Korea
Children in North Korea, photo via Wikimedia CommonsBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,269, August 28, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The sanctions imposed on North Korea have a humanitarian cost of which most members of the general public in the sanctioning nations are not aware, and which is almost never discussed. This cost, and its implications...
Refusing Entry to Foreign Nationals: How Common Is It?
Rashida Tlaib, photo via WikimediaBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,266, August 26, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: How unusual was Israel’s refusal to allow Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to enter Israel to engage in hostile political activity? Not very, based on a comparison with the UK. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are both...
