Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Vested Interests in Ukraine and Moldova
Invitation OnlyResearch EventVested Interests in Ukraine and Moldova14 Mar 2017 – 14:00 to 15:30Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, LondonRussia and Eurasia Programme, Ukraine ForumParticipantsKateryna Boguslavska, Academy Robert Bosch Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham HouseDownload ResultsOverviewVested...
National Security Advisor McMaster: The Good and Bad of Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice – General Officer Edition”
“I’ve got Captain McMaster for MilArt!” West Point cadets enrolled in Military History 302 during the early 1990’s spoke with pride if they were the lucky few drawing McMaster’s section. They studied combat under the tutelage of Desert Storm’s most notable young war hero – the commander of E Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry...
Brexit goes nuclear: The consequences of leaving Euratom
The UK Government has clarified with its Brexit White Paper that when invoking Article 50, it ‘will be leaving Euratom as well as the EU’. The need to distinguish exiting Euratom from exiting the EU arises because Euratom is legally distinct from the EU. The UK decided to leave Euratom because, albeit independent, the institution relies for...
New Mass Detention in Russian-occupied Crimea
Another Crimean Tatar has been charged in Russian-occupied Crimea over an innocuous social network post from 2014, with 10 other Crimean Tatars who arrived outside his home to show moral support and report what has happening also taken away …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
A Global Argument About the Future
Medieval v Modern ♠ Medieval Political Absolutism v Modern Democratic and Checked Distribution of Power ♠ Medieval Dissimulation v Modern Integrity ♠ President Putin’s feudal Moscow has set the new low standard for the obliteration of human conscience, empathy, and reason. His state has defied the open democracies of the west by perverting...
As Trump flounders on foreign policy, Russia flexes its nuclear muscles
Thirty years after Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a landmark nuclear arms treaty which laid the foundations of post-Cold War relations between the West and the Soviet Union, recent developments suggest that the Kremlin has quietly restarted the nuclear arms race with the deployment of a new generation of nuclear weapons which could...
The future of the European security order
In recent years numerous new threats have emerged in Europe and across its neighborhood. Several of these represent a resurgence of traditional security threats—from Russia’s annexation of Crimea and destabilization of Western Ukraine, to the rise of Islamic extremism and turmoil in the Middle East, and the terrorism it has bred. Other...
Complete issue: January/February 2017
This issue of Newsbrief includes articles on the evolution of US special forces, how Trump could shatter global non-proliferation efforts, and how to respond to the threat from foreign fighters returning to Europe from Syria and Iraq, as well as articles on the Philippines, Kazakhstan and Kosovo. Download the complete issue (3.3 MB)Download the...
February 21st, 2017
CAMBODIA Cambodian Political Analyst Arrested For Defaming Prime MinisterRADIO FREE ASIA Prominent Cambodian political analyst and social commentator Kim Sok was arrested on Friday and charged with inciting social chaos and defaming Prime Minister Hun Sen during a radio interview with RFA’s Khmer Service last week. Hundreds of supporters...
Eastern Ukraine Ceasefire Begins — But Will it Hold?
February 21, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
