Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Rex Tillerson Might Make Good Deals. But for Whom?
Emma Ashford Donald Trump’s cabinet of generals and billionaires looks poised to gain another controversial member: Rex Tillerson. The CEO of ExxonMobil is now the secretary of state nominee. His nomination raises several red flags, but the central one is: conflicts of interest. In that, he’s a perfect match for the Trump...
Tillerson is no Putin stooge – but he is a potential embarrassment
Rex Tillerson’s official nomination by Donald Trump to be the next secretary of state has led to predictable outcry about having the former Exxon CEO in the White House. But most of this commentary is as malodorously confused as smoke emitted by a Texan oil refinery. Just about the only person who hasn’t expressed an opinion is Nigel...
Security in Europe from a Visegrad viewpoint
By Public Relations. On December 9th, GPI Research Fellow Tomáš A. Nagy represented our GLOBSEC Policy Institute at Think Visegrad roundtable entitled Security in Europe from a Visegrad viewpoint organised by Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and EUROPEUM Institute in Brussels. The roundtable was devoted to the future of Visegrad...
V4+ Security Roundtable in Kiev
By Public Relations.On December 7th, Reseach Fellows, Tomáš A. Nagy and Katarína Klingová represented our GLOBSEC Policy Institute at the V4+ Security roundtable series in Kiev, Ukraine. The roundtable was devoted to two asymmetrically cover topics – i.e. cooperation within the sphere of defence training and education (minor attention) and...
Outlook for the 15 December 2016 European Council
Written by Ralf Drachenberg and Susanna Tenhunen, koya979 / Shutterstock.com At their 15 December 2016 European Council meeting, EU Leaders will mainly discuss migration, and internal and external security, as well as economic and social development. Particular attention will be paid to assessing the implementation of previous European Council...
Indian foreign policy: a paradigm shift?
This article was first delivered as a speech earlier this month at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, inaugurating the Rajni Kothari Memorial Lecture Series Indian foreign policy is undergoing a paradigm shift. It has had several such shifts over the last seven decades, but over the course of time, these have amounted to continuity....
Keir Starmer: British are “open and tolerant” but on free movement the “status quo is not an option”
Keir Starmer: British are “open and tolerant” but on free movement the “status quo is not an option”Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, said in a speech yesterday that seeking changes to free movement would “make a deal on single market access harder,” but that, nevertheless, “The status quo is not an option.” Starmer said that the...
Ukraine bans import of ’anti-Ukrainian’ books from Russia
Ukraine’s parliament has passed a law aimed at checking books from an aggressor state for ‘anti-Ukrainian content’ and, where such content is found, banning them. While the ongoing abundance on the Ukrainian market of material full of toxic lies and propaganda is of concern, doubts arise about the law’s efficacy, as well as over...
Misleading OSCE Media report ignores Russia’s annexation of Crimea
An OSCE representative should certainly treat Crimea and areas under the control of Kremlin-backed militants as Ukraine, but ignoring Russia’s culpability for flagrant rights violations leads to serious distortion of the facts. This is just one of the concerns about the report by Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Media Freedom....
Beyond the Headlines: RAND’s Christopher Paul Discusses the Russian ‘Firehose of Falsehood’
Christopher Paul, a senior social scientist, discussed his study on Russian propaganda at a recent RAND event. A massive, ingenious, and concerning campaign of propaganda has been pumping westward for years, supporting the Russian agenda in Ukraine and Syria and likely trying to influence the U.S. presidential election. …read more Source:...
