Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russia’s Military Policy in the Post-Soviet Space
Since the Russo-Georgian war and the start of military reform in 2008, the importance of military means in Russia’s foreign policy toolbox has increased. This is especially true of the post-Soviet space, where Moscow’s vital security interests and regional ambitions converge. Russia is pursuing three goals here: it wants to ward off...
Das ukrainische »Superwahljahr«
2019 stehen in der Ukraine zwei richtungsweisende Wahlen an: Ende März findet die Präsidentschaftswahl statt, im Oktober wird ein neues Parlament gewählt. Der Ausgang der Präsidentschaftswahl ist vollkommen offen. Eine außen- und sicherheitspolitische Kursänderung der Ukraine wäre allerdings auch bei einem Wechsel an der Staatsspitze...
Are U.S. and Russia in a new Cold War?
By Alina PolyakovaThe revelation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections caught Americans by surprise. As we learn more about how the Russian intelligence agencies, state-controlled media and various proxies worked to influence the U.S. elections in an effort to undermine trust in the electoral process and further divide...
International Support Urged For Ukraine in Face of Russian Aggression
“There is a war going on in the middle of Europe. A very hot war,” according to Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Ukraine’s vice prime minister for Euro-Atlantic integration, who urged policy makers to confront this “uncomfortable truth” about Russian aggression. Speaking in a panel discussion hosted by Ukraine House Davos in Davos, Switzerland,...
Elections in 2019: Risks of More Interference
The past year was a turbulent one for democracy in the transatlantic space. A rising tide of populism, nationalism, extremism, and illiberalism continued to upend politics. This affected elections in countries like Italy, where the ruling coalition is now made up of a far-right party and its anti-establishment ally, and Sweden, where the...
See How Much You Know About Ukraine
Ukraine has repeatedly found itself at the center of geopolitical conflicts between East and West …read more Source: Council on Foreign...
Termites, Bigots and GOATs: Rationalizing Complicity with Anti-Semitism
Consider the front page story in the New York Times Sunday Review, which singled out the Palestinian issue as “one of the great moral challenges of our time” — ignoring Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Tibet, Cyprus and many far greater …read more Source: Gatestone...
Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – January 2019
Welcome to the second edition of the Trans-Atlantic Scorecard, a quarterly evaluation of U.S.-European relations produced by Brookings’s Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE), as part of the Brookings – Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Initiative. To produce the Scorecard, we poll Brookings scholars and other experts on the...
US-Russland-Politik trifft europäische Energieversorgung
Seit Beginn der russischen Militärintervention in der Ukraine Anfang 2014 befinden sich die Regierungen der Vereinigten Staaten und der Russischen Föderation in einer geopolitischen Auseinandersetzung, die überwiegend mit wirtschaftlichen Mitteln ausgetragen wird. Neben unilateralen Wirtschaftssanktionen setzt die US-Regierung dabei auf den...
Is the Violent Dismemberment of Russia Official US Policy?
If there’s one thing everyone in today’s Washington can agree on, it’s that whenever an official or someone being paid by the government says something truly outrageous or dangerous, there should be consequences, if only a fleeting moment of media fury. With one notable exception: Arguing that the US should be quietly working to...
