Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
What Foreign Threats? The Biggest Threats to America Come From its ‘Friends’
One of the local Washington television stations was doing a typical early morning honoring our soldiers schtick just before Thanksgiving. In it soldiers stationed far from home were treated to videolinks so they could talk to their families and everyone could nod happily and wish themselves a wonderful holiday. Not really listening, I became...
Electricity Market Reforms in Ukraine: Challenges and Opportunities
As part of a nationwide series of reforms, Ukraine has introduced a new electricity market reform law. This law provides an opportunity to synchronize the Ukrainian energy system with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) and integrate Ukraine within the European market. Why are these reforms important,...
Is War Looming in the Baltic Sea?
Gotland, Sweden, on the Baltic Sea, photo by Erik Anestad via Flickr CCBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,027, December 4, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Russia and Sweden have fought 12 wars over the course of their histories. In recent years, relations have grown tense once again between the expansionist superpower and the peaceable Scandinavian...
Trump Foreign Policy: Doing the Same Thing and Expecting a Different Result
After a week of insisting that a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Argentina was going to happen, President Trump at the last minute sent out a Tweet explaining that due to a Russia/Ukraine dispute in the Sea of Azov he would no longer be willing to meet his Russian counterpart.According to Trump, the meeting had to be...
Sayonara, ‘America First’! We Hardly Knew Ye!
President Donald Trump’s cancellation of his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Buenos Aires G20 is another sign of the now almost certain demise of his declared “America First” agenda – and perhaps of his presidency. Supposedly decided in response to a Ukraine-Russia naval incident in the Kerch Strait, dumping the...
It’s Time to Stop Appeasing Putin – Here’s How to Deter the Emboldened Russian President
MUNICH – There are few better places in the world than here to reflect on the need to end Western appeasement of Vladimir Putin and his growing list of international crimes. The latest was last Sunday’s Russian attack on Ukrainian naval vessels in the Black Sea — and its purpose of asserting Kremlin control over its still-sovereign...
‘Anti-Russia Neocons’ in US Office Plotted to Cancel Trump-Putin Talks – Scholar
US President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel his G20 talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin reveals how easily he is swayed by the neoconservative hawks he appointed who exploited the Kerch Strait incident, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Director Daniel McAdams told Sputnik. ‘The President [Trump] has spent decades...
Trump Cancels Meeting With Putin
‘Better no meeting than a bad one,’ says the Atlantic Council’s Daniel Fried Hours after the Kremlin confirmed a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald J. Trump on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires on December 1, the US president cancelled the appointment with his Russian counterpart citing the continued...
It’s a Borderful World
Nation-states: what a quaint notion. As a means of organizing territory, they seem to be a brief transition period between large empires and an even larger, borderless world. Sure, nation-states might live on in the form of anthems and flags and independence days, but the idea of fixed borders just don’t make sense in a world of cell...
Global Militarization Index 2018 Europe: Trend of an arms build-up in eastern and western countries
In the course of the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the violent conflict in eastern Ukraine, relations between NATO and Russia have deteriorated severely. This can also be observed in the GMI 2018. “The pressure exerted by the United States on European NATO countries to increase their military budgets has its first effects”, Max...