Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Kleptocracy Weekly: January 27, 2017
Fueling Kleptocracy: Transparency in the Extractives Industry: Nate Sibley on how an imminent move to repeal a law requiring U.S. oil, gas, and mining firms to report payments to foreign governments would play into the hands of kleptocrats. Practicing and Prosecuting Foreign Corruption: Casey Michel talks to Steve Levine about the Foreign Corrupt...
America’s Russian Problem
Russian-American relations over the past several years have taken on some of the most familiar aspects of the Cold War. The conventional wisdom is extremely one-side, concluding that Russian President Vladimir Putin is entirely responsible for the setback as a result of his actions in Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine and Syria, and that the Russian...
The Brief: Can the Ukrainian model solve the Brexit conundrum?
Britain is having a mid-life crisis and wants, after 40 years of marriage to the EU, to trade the bloc in for a younger model. …read more Source:...
Goodbye Susan Rice, Hello National Security Options
Doug Bandow National Security Adviser Susan Rice needs a long rest. She recently stated that she didn’t “have the luxury of focusing on” only three nations, as suggested by the Washington Post in an interview. After a reporter (presumably jokingly) asked about Canada, she replied that it was one of the few countries on the planet that she...
Cyber-Spying Scandal Looms as Three Russians Arrested
Available reports suggest intelligence agents and Kaspersky Labs exec are suspected of giving information to a foreign government. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Fears grow in EU that Trump is about to lift sanctions against Russia
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is likely to speak with Donald Trump tomorrow (28 January), a source said today (27 January), as rumours grow that the US president will lift the sanctions against Russia imposed over its intervention in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. …read more Source:...
Jeffrey Sachs on America and a New World Order
“America first!” Donald Trump hammered out this message over and again in his inauguration speech a week ago today. He promised tariffs, a crackdown on immigration, and a restoration of American military might. He entered the White House as the least popular incoming president in 40 years. Not every liberal thinker is in a state of despair....
A renewed Special Relationship will be a global force for good
I defy any person to travel to this great country at any time and not to be inspired by its promise and its example. For more than two centuries, the very idea of America – drawn from history and given written form in a small hall not far from here – has lit up the world. That idea that all are created equal and that all are born free has never...
Global Think Tank Ranking BICC amongst the best think tanks worldwide
The 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP), University of Pennsylvania, lists the Center among the Top 150 (worldwide) and Top 100 (non-US). Again, BICC is the only peace and conflict research centre from Germany that is listed in this ranking. “I am extremely pleased that BICC as a...
Ten issues to watch in 2017
Written by Etienne Bassot, © WavebreakmediaMicro, chainat, AR Pictures, retrostar, Andrei Korzhyts, anjokan, VRD, psdesign1, Peter Hermes Furian, Tupungato, hurca.com, rochagneux / Fotolia This is the first edition of a new EPRS publication designed to identify key issues and policy areas that are likely to feature prominently on the agenda of...
