Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Victoria Nuland
By Rachel SlatteryAmbassador Victoria Nuland is senior counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm based in Washington, D.C. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, distinguished practitioner in grand strategy at Yale University, and a member of the board of...
Elections in Ukraine and Slovakia Offer a Glimpse into Russia’s Future
Will Russia equally fall for a political outsider? Only time will tell. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Future of NATO: New Challenges and Opportunities
Editor’s Note: On April 2, Dr. Evelyn Farkas, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, delivered testimony in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the future challenges and opportunities for NATO ahead of the alliance’s 70th anniversary. Chairman Keating, Ranking Member...
NATO At 70: A Strategic Partnership For The 21st Century
Editor’s Note: On April 2, Dr. Karen Donfried, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, delivered testimony in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the value of NATO ahead of the alliance’s 70th anniversary. Chairman Risch, Ranking Member Menendez, and other members of the committee: Thank you...
Is Washington Preparing the Groundwork for a Maidan Scenario in Venezuela?
Venezuela is home to the largest oil deposits in the world, which makes the political stakes involved much higher than they would be otherwise. Enter Juan Guaidó, Washington’s puppet leader in Caracas, who will be attempting to rally the country against legitimate (i.e., democratically elected by the people) President Nicolas Maduro next...
NATO Is Not Dying. It’s a Zombie.
How do you know when a person is positively dead? Well, check for a pulse. Walter Russell Mead checked the pulse of the Atlantic Alliance in a recent op-ed and concluded that NATO is dying. But Mead is wrong. NATO is simply a zombie periodically reanimated through various methods, usually voodoo magic. Yet, reanimation has its limits. Even...
After Crimea: Does NATO have the means to defend Europe?
Military spending may now figure in public conversation about NATO. But the alliance, at 70 years old, still lacks military capabilities strong enough to protect Europe from Russia …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Election in Ukraine: Zelenskiy is closer to the presidency
The first round of the presidential elections was held on 31 March in Ukraine. The results of exit polls conducted by both TV stations and a consortium of public opinion research centres (the so-called ‘national exit poll’) indicated that the first round had been won by the comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, while the incumbent president Petro...
Status Quo Woes in Slovakia, Ukraine, and Turkey
Elections in three very different countries share a common desire to change the status quo. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
An Increasingly Serious Black Sea Player
“The United States has proven its commitment to the security of the Black Sea region, and it has supported the newer NATO members in their efforts to focus the attention of the alliance on their needs.” – Alina Inayeh With Romania and Bulgaria joining the alliance in 2004, bringing up to three—with Turkey—the number of littoral member...
