Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
How to Make ‘America First’ Truly Great
Doug Bandow Only Donald Trump would attempt to rescue the phrase “America First” from its slightly discreditable heritage. Unfortunately, his sales job has been incomplete and unconvincing. Now, someone needs to rescue the same phrase from his crabbed, negative meaning. The dominant foreign-policy vision animating left and right in recent years...
Trump Should Copy Richard Nixon by Separating China and Russia
Doug Bandow Perhaps the greatest evidence of the hubris surrounding uberhawks of both neoconservative and liberal interventionist nature is their willingness, even determination, to make multiple enemies simultaneously around the globe. Hence their constant refrain that the world is dangerous and military spending must go up, ever up. Yet if the...
Ukraine Says More Soldiers Killed in Deadliest Clashes in Weeks
January 30, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Annexed Crimea: Crimean Tatars and their Struggle for Freedom
MembersAnnexed Crimea: Crimean Tatars and their Struggle for Freedom10 Mar 2017 – 13:00 to 14:00Add to CalendariCalendar Outlook Google Yahoo Chatham House, LondonParticipantsTunne Kelam, Member of the European Parliament, IRLEmine Dzheppar, Ukrainian Activist; Advisor, Ministry of Information PolicyChair: Orysia Lutsevych, Manager, Ukraine...
Russia-US Relations in 2017
By Jacob L. Shapiro On Sat Jan. 28, U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone. The White House said in a statement afterwards that the conversation was a “significant start to improving the relationship between the United States and Russia,” and that the two sides hoped to move forward quickly in tackling...
A Two-State Solution? Just Not According to the Clinton Parameters
UN map of Israel via Wikimedia CommonsBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 401 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: With the start of a new era in the White House, Israel must let go of the two-state solution as defined by the Clinton Parameters. It is time for a reassessment of Rabin’s approach, which stressed the importance of the preservation and...
Ukrainian court sabotages fight about judicial corruption
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau [NABU] has reacted with anger after a court rejected its application to have a Kyiv judge caught taking a huge bribe remanded in custody. The agency pulls no punches, calling the move sabotage and rejecting the court’s attempt to hide behind a dubious ‘statement’ issued recently by the High Council...
Igor Kotelyanets: On my brother Yevhen Panov & other political prisoners
Address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Donald Trump should ask Putin’s Ukrainian hostages how torture ‘works’
US President Donald Trump’s assertion in a recent interview that torture ‘works’ was shocking for several reasons, but it was also wrong. Most people, subjected to enough pain, will provide any answer to stop the torture. This is precisely why Russia’s FSB has systematically used such methods to imprison Ukrainian hostages....
Georgian Splits and Struggles
In Gore Vidal’s stage play turned film, “The Best Man,” President Art Hockstader says, “Power is not a toy we give to good children. It is a weapon. And the strong man takes it and uses it.” The struggles of Georgia’s enduring political rivals to acquire and to hold power, whether it is former President Misha Saakashvili and his...
