Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Can Culture Help People Cope With Instability? The Case of Ukraine
Invitation Only Research Event 10 April 2019 – 10:30am to 12:00pmAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE …read more Source: Chatham...
Towards an Inclusive Peace: Three Dangerous Assumptions about Security
Alaa Murabit is a doctor, a UN High-Level Commissioner on Health, Employment and Economic growth, and the Executive Director of Phase Minus 1, providing thought leadership in peacebuilding, sustainable development, and inclusive security. Earlier this year I had the pleasure to share my peacebuilding work with an audience at the Ukraine House...
Improving EU-U.S. Cooperation in Civil Society Support in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans
The European Union and the United States devote considerable funds and programs to supporting civil society in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans – support that is being confronted with old and new challenges. Closing civic space is now entrenched in many countries and the means to undermine civic actors has become more sophisticated. The...
Gallup Finds Americans Have Been Very Deceived Regarding United States’ Image Around the World
Gallup issued on February 28th its “2019 Rating World Leaders” report, subtitled “The US vs. Germany, China and Russia,” and said that “The world still frowned on US leadership more than the leadership of any other country asked about in 2018.” All four of the countries’ leaderships received approval-ratings from people worldwide in only...
Military Intervention and Mercenaries, Inc. (MIAMI)
The city of Miami, Florida may have started out as a retirement mecca for winter-worn pensioners from northern climes. However, after the beginning of the Cold War and US military and Central Intelligence Agency intervention in Guatemala, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Guyana, the Bahamas, and other Western Hemisphere...
Russia’s Perpetual Quest for Military Modernization
Russian military honor guard, DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley via photostream of Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Flickr CCBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,097, February 26, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: One of the cyclical patterns of Russian history is the country’s perpetual quest for military...
Pence, Guaidó Fail to Secure Lima Group Approval for US Military Intervention in Venezuela
CARACAS, VENEZUELA – On Sunday, the US-backed and self-declared “interim president” of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, announced that he would meet with the Lima Group on Monday to “formally propose” keeping “all options open” for the “liberation” of Venezuela. The Lima Group, composed of the US and its allies and client states in the Americas, have all...
How the Trump Administration Should Counter Putin’s Policies in Ukraine and Venezuela
If Nicolás Maduro is removed from office in Venezuela, Putin might act as he did when a popular revolution overthrew Yanukovych in Ukraine, in 2014: with a surprise invasion of the Crimea. This time, Putin may launch a surprise naval and land attack on …read more Source: Gatestone...
The Dark Side of European Integration: Social Foundations and Cultural Determinants of the Rise of Radical Right Movements in Contemporary Europe
By Alina PolyakovaAcross Europe, radical right-wing parties are winning increasing electoral support. In “The Dark Side of European Integration” (ibidem-Verlag and Columbia University Press, 2015) Alina Polyakova argues that this rising nationalism and the mobilization of the radical right are the consequences of European economic integration....
Italian Foreign Policy: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same.
For a long time, Italy struggled with a fundamental discrepancy between its ambition to be considered one of the great powers of Europe and its quite meager capabilities. Victory in World War I seemed for a brief time to give it status as a major player, but fascism proved to be the ultimate example of the tragic contradiction between goals and...
