Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Why Do ‘Progressives’ Like War?
Liberals are supposed to be antiwar, right? I went to college in the 1960s, when students nationwide were rising up in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a Young Republican back then and supported the war through sheer ignorance and dislike of the sanctimoniousness of the protesters, some of whom were surely making their way to Canada to live...
The indirect impact of Germany’s presidential election on Russia
The indirect impact of Germany’s presidential election on Russia Germany’s new president won’t immediately improve German-Russian relations, but he might foster a shift in the composition of the political elites. This could have an indirect impact on Moscow-Berlin relationsGermany’s new president won’t immediately...
Russia is Europe
Russia / Europe As the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine escalates, and Russia begins to resemble a monarchy run by Ivan the Terrible which allows Simeons Bekbulatoviches to occasionally jump in the driver’s seat, the word is spreading among those who are not indifferent to this country that Russia is not Europe but some kind of...
Watch List: Feb. 21, 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...
Kleptocracy Daily: February 21, 2017
News British MPs voted to pass the Criminal Finances Bill, including a “Magnitsky Amendment” which would allow the government to freeze kleptocrats’ assets. MPs also want more transparency in overseas territories, many of which are notorious secrecy jurisdictions. (Justice for Magnitsky campaign, Bloomberg) An Austrian court ruled that...
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...
