Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Trump the Russian Puppet. A Story That Just Will Not Die
Certainly, there are many things that President Donald Trump can rightly be criticized for, but it is interesting to note how the media and chattering classes continue to be in the grip of the highly emotional but ultimately irrational “Trump derangement syndrome (TDS).” TDS means that even the most ridiculous claims about Trump behavior can be...
A Post-Soviet “War and Peace”
What Tolstoy’s Masterwork Explains About Putin’s Foreign Policy On February 23, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the final day of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the most expensive winter games to date and the first hosted by an Eastern-bloc country since the Soviet Union’s collapse. Amid the fanfare and the...
La guerra in Ucraina: quali prospettive di soluzione?
07/10/2019Turin, Campus Luigi Einaudi The seminar, organized in cooperation with the University of Turin, the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, and in particular with the CISP – Centro Interateneo di Studi per la Pace will deal with the annexation of Crimea and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war in Donbass region, the Western...
Russia Will Likely Collapse from the Inside
St. Petersburg, Russia, photo via maxpixel.netBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,286, September 11, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Russia is historically prone to internal collapse, as is shown by numerous examples from both the imperial and Soviet periods. The collapse usually takes place as Russia rests on the laurels of recent military victories...
Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners
After months of negotiations, on 9 September an exchange of prisoners took place between Russia and Ukraine, each side sending 35 people. According to media leaks, Ukraine had initially demanded the release of 150 prisoners, while the list submitted by Russia named 34 people. …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
New hopes, old risks: the prospects for settling the conflict in Donbas
A working meeting was held on 2 September in Berlin as part of preparations so-called Normandy Format summit (leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France) for settling the conflict in Donbas. This will be the first such summit since 2016. …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Islamist-inspired Terrorism Returns to Yemen
Recent tensions within the coalition between the Saudis and the Emiratis over which faction they support in the Yemeni government has added yet another political dimension to the country’s bitter civil war, one Islamist terrorists have been quick to …read more Source:: Gatestone...
‘The show has just begun’: European press reacts to Johnson’s parliamentary defeat
‘The show has just begun’: European press reacts to Johnson’s parliamentary defeatOpen Europe’s Anna Nadibaidze reviews how papers across Europe portrayed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s first major defeat in Parliament.The post ‘The show has just begun’: European press reacts to Johnson’s parliamentary defeat...
Priorità italiane dopo 70 anni di Nato
In: Documenti IAIPriorità italiane dopo 70 anni di NatoIssue: 19|16Con la fine della Guerra Fredda, la Nato ha avviato un processo, ad oggi ancora in corso, di ridefinizione del proprio approccio strategico, affiancando a deterrenza e difesa collettiva nuove funzioni e capacità, dalla gestione di crisi alla sicurezza cooperativa, volte a...
The G-7 Gathers in Biarritz for a Dysfunctional Family Reunion
This weekend, leaders from the G-7 will convene for their annual summit, this time in Biarritz, F …read more Source:: Council on Foreign...
