Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
NATO’s Real Alliance Dilemma
Ted Galen Carpenter NATO’s European members, especially the newest members in eastern Europe, incessantly fret about the threat that Vladimir Putin’s Russia poses to their countries and the continent. Their worries were noticeable even before the eruption of the Ukraine crisis in 2013 and 2014. Moscow’s 2008 military...
French election: where the candidates stand on foreign policy
The first round of the French presidential elections will take place on April 23. Foreign policy has traditionally played a central role during presidential campaigns, but this has not been the case this time around. This can partly be explained by the unusually high number of candidates (11 in total), the fact that what matters to the French...
Kleptocracy Daily: April 18, 2017
Tomorrow: KI will host Oleksander Danyliuk, Minister of Finance of Ukraine, for a discussion with Walter Russell Mead at Hudson Institute. Sign up or watch live. News An Oregon legislative committee has passed a sweeping piece of legislation designed to rein in abusive, anonymous companies. (Portland Business Journal) The impoverished Democratic...
Struggling to Signal: Trump’s Dilemma with Arms Control Diplomacy: 18th April 2017
Maxwell Downman, Research Intern Capitol Washington Dispatches.jpeg Some believe the world is a safer place with Trump in the White House. In a recent RUSI brief, Dr Peter Roberts offered the view that Trump’s unpredictability, shown most recently by his Tomahawk cruise missile attack on Syria’s air base, ‘might cause many states to...
Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France Discuss Ukraine Peace Deal
April 18, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Reshaping NAFTA could be good for Mexico’s economy (and Brazil’s and Argentina’s, too)
Among other threats targeting Mexico during his election campaign, US President Donald Trump harshly criticised the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a 23-year-old tripartite deal that removed tariffs and significantly increased commerce between Canada, the United States and Mexico. Renegotiation of the deal is likely to start late...
Call for participation: Training for Young Journalists on Reporting on the EU-related issues
The Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy, Budapest-based think tank, together with the Institute of World Policy is organizing a training program for young Ukrainian journalists to deepen their understanding on the EU-related issues and procedures. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Caught Unaware and Unprepared
In 2013, Russian General Valery Gerasimov – currently the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia and the first Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation – published an article describing Russian military thinking and strategies. Known famously as the “Gerasimov’s Doctrine”, it defined information warfare as the...
Tortured to Death for Defending Ukraine’s Flag, Ukrainian Unity
It is three years since Volodymyr Rybak was abducted by Kremlin-backed militants when he tried to remove the flag of the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ from the seized Horlivka city council building. His tortured and mutilated body was found 5 days later, together with that of 19-year-old student Yury Popravko. …read more...
Supreme Court Candidate Exposed for Sentencing Innocent Man to Life Imprisonment
It is, of course, for the court to determine a man’s innocence, however in the case of life prisoner Volodymyr Panasenko, nobody has ever believed he is guilty. Now, after Panasenko has been in prison for over 10 years, his trial has proven a career nemesis for one of the judges who sentenced him. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human...
