Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Sea of Azov should not become a Russian lake
The conflict in Ukraine is far from over. …read more Source: European Policy...
Security for Disarmament: Negotiating Ukraine’s Budapest Memorandum
The ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, with its recent escalation in the Sea of Azov, continues to draw attention to the substance of security commitments pledged by the nuclear weapons states to Ukraine in exchange for dismantling the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the Soviet Union. …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International...
Dire strait: Russian naval aggression and Ukrainian politics
Kyiv has imposed martial law as a legal framework within which to mobilise national defence, in case Russia engages in coercion designed to establish a new status quo in the Sea of Azov …read more Source: European Council on Foreign...
Discuss Dispute Resolution in CIS-Related Business Transactions on 28 February 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany
The German-Russian Lawyers’ Association (DRJV) and DIS40, the below 40 initiative of the German Arbitration Institute, are organising a conference on “Dispute Resolution in CIS-Related Business Transactions” (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine) on 28 February 2019 (Thursday) in Frankfurt, Germany. This full-day event is hosted...
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...
