Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Italy’s Lukewarm Approach to Arms Control
In: IAI CommentariesItaly’s Lukewarm Approach to Arms ControlIssue: 19|12Italy’s Lukewarm Approach to Arms Control Carlo Trezza* Arms control does not seem to be a priority for the present Italian government led by Giuseppe Conte. The issue is not addressed in the “government contract”,[1] the compromise text considered a “bible” by...
Hungary’s response to the offer to improve US-Hungarian relations
On 11 February, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo travelled to Budapest as part of his trip to Europe. This was the first visit of a US Secretary of State to Hungary since 2011. Pompeo met with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the minister of Foreign Affairs and the minister of Defence. The main subjects of the talks were Hungarian-US relations,...
Beyond Elections’ Digital Propaganda: Need for Improvement of Public Debates
In AICGS’ new report “Defending Democracy in the Cybersphere,” Nad’a Kovalcikova calls for strengthening public debate in the face of ongoing digital propaganda. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, we have been increasingly facing non-military threats, including digital disinformation campaigns, which have a world-wide...
Transforming Ukrainian Healthcare: Lessons Learnt for Wider System Change
Invitation Only Research Event 4 March 2019 – 3:30pm to 5:00pmAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE …read more Source: Chatham...
How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela
On Monday, February 5th, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the 14 countries of the Lima Group — who had actually formed themselves under her direction into this new group on 8 August 2017 in order to overthrow and replace Venezuela’s current President Nicholas Maduro — have now been joined (though she didn’t...
Revisiting the Narrative About Hungary’s Relationship with Russia
Editor’s Note: This article is a response to Stephen Blank’s essay, Putin’s Energy Strategy Is More Ambitious than You Think, which was published by the Atlantic Council’s UkraineAlert blog on January 4, 2019. Since arriving in Washington in the summer of 2017, I have grown somewhat baffled by the narrative about Hungary,...
US-Russia Policy Hits European Energy Supply
Triggered by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Ukraine in early 2014, the governments of the United States (US) and the Russian Federation have since been locked in a geopolitical confrontation, which is largely playing out on the economic stage. In addition to unilateral economic sanctions, the US government is...
Der Donbas-Konflikt
Russland annektierte 2014 in Reaktion auf den Kyiwer »Euromaidan” die Krim und entfachte einen Krieg im Osten der Ukraine. Dort herrscht seitdem ein bewaffneter Konflikt, in dem bis heute Menschen sterben. Seit fünf Jahren versuchen Deutschland und seine westlichen Partner, diesen Konflikt durch Verhandlungen politisch zu lösen – bislang...
Civil Society vs. Corruption: the Case of Zaporizhzhia
Invitation Only Research Event 27 February 2019 – 3:00pm to 5:00pmAdd to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House | 10 St James’s Square | London | SW1Y 4LE …read more Source: Chatham...
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster
In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: US Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 US regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994). Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back of the latest edition says...
