Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Enemy No. 1 for Exposing Lawlessness & Repression in Russian-occupied Crimea
Several dozen Russian lawyers have issued a hard-hitting statement in support for jailed Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov and his colleagues who, they stress, are providing the last obstacle to total lawlessness in Russian-occupied Crimea …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Watch List: Jan. 30, 2017
The items listed below represent potential emerging issues that our analysts are tracking. These can be long term or short term, but will be updated daily. If an item on our Watch List becomes critical, we will email you a full analysis explaining its significance. Each Saturday, we will follow up our daily Watch List for each week with our...
Postcards Commemorating Ukraine War Dead Capture Human Dimension
Sent to people all across the world, the postcards aim to “make the war more personal,” says project’s initiator. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Trump Can Fix the Defects in U.S. Foreign Policy
Ted Galen Carpenter In administration after administration over the decades, U.S. foreign policy has habitually exhibited several of the same deficiencies. Although those defects and blind spots were evident throughout the Cold War, they have become more noticeable and worrisome since the end of that struggle. Today, they are glaringly apparent...
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...
