Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
A European Security Council: Between strategic need and institutional realities
A European Security Council: Between strategic need and institutional realities marianna.liana… Wed, 02/11/2026 – 16:05 5 minutes The idea of a European Security Council (ESC) is back. Commissioner Andrius Kubilius has recently revived the proposal, arguing that the EU needs such a body to enable faster decisions on defence and security....
On Greenland and U.S. Strategic Interests in the Arctic
In this episode, experts discuss the United States’ renewed interest in Greenland—which the Trump administration argues is vital to U.S. national security—and what it means for Arctic security, the NATO alliance, and great power competition. Background Reading: This article unpacks Trump’s increasingly assertive push to bring...
Where Do Ukraine Peace Talks Stand After Geneva?
And, as we approach the four-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, have Putin’s war objectives changed? …read more Source:: Hoover...
Trump Kabuki Theatre in Ukraine: Nothing of Substance Gets Resolved
It is not a glitch (that nothing gets resolved). It’s a feature. For it opens rather, a path for “Business” to be done – for “stakeholder” deals to be cut, and for billions to be shared out in payoffs. This is Trump’s geo-political transactional model: Business displaces traditional negotiation (at least while the money flows); Money...
Defence readiness beyond the EU: How enlargement partners underpin European security
Defence readiness beyond the EU: How enlargement partners underpin European security marianna.liana… Tue, 02/17/2026 – 10:19 1 minute As Europe’s defence policy takes centre stage, the Western Balkans are not passive bystanders. Governments across the region are shifting the focus of defence modernisation from maintaining existing...
Ukraine hopes escalating Russian losses will push Putin toward peace
The post Ukraine hopes escalating Russian losses will push Putin toward peace appeared first on Atlantic Council. …read more Source:: Atlantic...
Ex-Ambassador Explains Russia’s Tricky Negotiating Strategy
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McFaul discusses the Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations, President Trump’s approach to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the ideological parallels between Putinism and MAGA. …read more Source:: Hoover...
Geopolitical miscalculations: The case against Russia’s presence in Syria
Geopolitical miscalculations: The case against Russia’s presence in Syria marianna.liana… Fri, 03/14/2025 – 16:37 5 minutes ‘The Kremlin must be running out of champagne bottles to crack open,’ an EU policymaker grimly remarked during one of the many recent seminars focused on upheavals in the global order. Over the past...
War And Peace . . . And A Changing Europe
The intricacies of a Ukraine-Russia peace deal and the Future of NATO. …read more Source:: Hoover...
“Now, no ally can be sure that Washington won’t do to them what it is doing to Ukraine”
“Now, no ally can be sure that Washington won’t do to them what it is doing to Ukraine” marianna.liana… Thu, 03/13/2025 – 17:55 Giuseppe Spatafora was quoted in Anadolu in an article analysing the significance of the EU’s ‘Likeminded Countries Initiative’ and the meeting that took place between EU leaders...
