Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Brussels Attacks One Year On: More Still Needs to Be Done
Belgium has accomplished much since last year’s devastating terrorist attacks – the worst in its history. But the threats continue, and new security vulnerabilities are becoming apparent.One year ago, Belgium was struck by the worst terrorist attack in its history, killing 32 civilians and injuring several hundreds.The bombings followed...
Why Is Trump Abandoning the Foreign Policy That Brought Him Victory?
Doug Bandow Candidate Donald Trump offered a sharp break from his predecessors. He was particularly critical of neoconservatives, who seemed to back war at every turn. Indeed, he promised not to include in his administration “those who have perfect resumes but very little to brag about except responsibility for a long history of failed policies...
How the EU budget is spent: Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace
Written by Alina Dobreva with Philipp Wegner, © johndwilliams / Fotolia The EU contributes to the prevention of emerging crises and to an effective response to existing ones through the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP), launched in 2014. The instrument provides funds for conflict prevention, ensuring capacity and preparedness...
E-Mail Hack Gives Glimpse Into Russia’s Influence Drive In Eastern Europe
A recently hacked cache of documents indicates that Alyaksandr Usovsky’s activities include maintaining contact with Polish politician Mateusz Piskorski, a founder of a pro-Kremlin NGO that, among other things, organized this group of “international observers” to monitor the 2014 “referendum” in Crimea …read...
Human Rights Court judgment confirms violation by Russia of Crimean political prisoners’ rights
The European Court of Human Rights has issued an important judgment with direct relevance to Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko, and many other Ukrainians from occupied Crimea imprisoned huge distances away from their homes. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Captured Ukrainian soldiers ‘confess’ to militant killings & terrorism in Donbas & Russia
The so-called Luhansk people’s republic has extracted, almost certainly through torture, ‘confessions’ from two Ukrainian soldiers to killing one prominent militant and planning terrorist attacks on Russian cities. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Reflexive Control Process: “Allahu Akbar Terrorism” -> New Nationalism –> Neo-Feudalism
The prize of science: prediction with increasing certainty AKA “predictive validity”. Why should models in the social sciences, much including political science, differ from those proven useful in biology or physics? And what if apparent terrorism — the act as defined by the most immediate actor — were to mask another design altogether? When the...
Three Questions with Dr. Agnieszka Łada
Editor’s Note: The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in Warsaw hosted a discussion with Dr. Agnieszka Łada, head of the European Program and senior analyst at the Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw on Tuesday, February 28. Dr. Łada provided her perspective on the future of EU integration at the event and discussed...
Why Should U.S. Taxpayers Fund a Pushback Against Russia in Europe?
Image: Latvijas Armija | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A recent Senate hearing explored the role of U.S. allies bordering Russia – and how they help defend American democracy. By Marius Laurinavičius Donald Trump’s administration has proposed “fairly dramatic reductions” in the U.S. foreign aid budget, but an influential subcommittee of the U.S. Senate...
Fighting Corruption in Health Care? There’s an App for That
Teams of coders and journalists from Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan recently took part in a hackathon to address abuses in government procurement of medicines. …read more Source: Open Society...
