Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
“A coalition is not a love match” – Interview with Ralf Fücks
Are the Greens compatible with Angela Merkel? An interview with Ralf Fücks, president of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, on coalitions with Merkel, the rise of the AfD, as well as the foundation’s development over the past 20 years. Green European Journal: There are more and more liberal and left-leaning people in Germany (even among Green...
How Brazil’s far right became a dominant political force
Recent reports indicate that far-right groups from the Ukraine have come to Brazil to recruit neo-Nazis to fight against pro-Russian rebels. Western readers reacted with shock and fascination – but however strange the story might seem, conservatism and political extremism have been on the rise in Brazil for some time. Many of the country’s...
Bungled Intervention in Kosovo Risks Unraveling: a New Deal Needed for Peace
Doug Bandow Washington’s policy in the Balkans never made much sense. The U.S. wanted to keep some nations together and dismantle others. American officials deplored ethnic cleansing in some cases and ignored other instances. The only principle which explained Washington’s actions was that the Serbs always lose. With Kosovo and Serbia...
How Trump will reconfigure geopolitics
Ambassador Neelam Deo delivered this speech titled “Trump’s America: reconfiguring global geopolitics” at the grand finale of ‘The Mind Games’ – a platform for talent development & idea generation at Mahindra Partners on January 18, 2017....
Cracks Appearing
By Milan Nič. Photo: Reuters|Laszlo Balogh.Viktor Orbán has been in preaching mode recently. Hungary’s prime minister no longer complains about Germany’s “moral imperialism,” as he did at the peak of Europe’s refugee crisis in 2015. He now enthusiastically frames 2017 as “a year of revolt” within the EU: He sees the upcoming...
The US election and the Ukraine Connection
The Ukraine conflict might explain Russian intervention in the US presidential race. Samuel Charap and Timothy J. Colton call for compromise and dialogue. …read more Source: International Institute for Strategic...
Human Trafficking: open question in the Shut-In Russia
Society January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the United States. Although at first glance human trafficking does not seem to be a contentious topic, the issue of human trafficking is a political one in countries the world over. From the adoption of the Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in...
Russia: Its Boundaries In 2050
Related Commentaryvia StrategikaIn the late 1960s, Charles de Gaulle is reputed to have commented that the Soviet Union would collapse before the end of the twentieth century and that Russia itself would find its eastern borders back on the Urals before the twenty-first century had ended. Given our focus on the present it is impossible to predict...
The Kazakh Connection And The Future of Russia’s Borders
Related Commentaryvia StrategikaSince Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012, Russian revisionism has focused on the western reaches of the former Soviet Union. He has annexed Crimea and unleashed his surrogate forces in Southeast Ukraine. He has tested NATO defenses in the Baltic and North Sea, while intimidating Estonia, Latvia, and...
Historical Truth Banned in Russian-Occupied Crimea
Where Russia cannot prosecute for annoyingly inconvenient but entirely provable truth, it opts for bans. This appears to have now happened with the Kyiv-based website Istorychna Pravda [Historical Truth …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
