Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
V4 Defence Cooperation: A history of great ambitions paired with limited achievements
By Tomáš A. Nagy. Photo: Flickr|Defence Images, licensed by CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.If a serious financial crisis, an imperialist Russia and a migration crisis cannot motivate the member states of the Visegrad Four group to cooperate on defence, what can?Europe is going through one of the most testing periods in its recent history, and defence policy...
REPORT: Russia Policy for the Next U.S. Administration
December 1, 2016 As a new administration prepares to enter the White House, the U.S.- Russia relationship has fallen to its most dangerous level since the 1980s. The risk of a nuclear incident and an ongoing security dilemma in Europe have escalated amid the virtual breakdown of bilateral communication channels. Meanwhile, significant...
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EU energy policy [What Think Tanks are Thinking]
Written by Marcin Grajewski, On 30 November, the European Commission unveiled its ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans‘ legislative package, which it hopes will mark a major step twards creating an Energy Union that ensures a functioning internal market in gas and electricity, addresses security of supply issues, promotes renewable energy sources,...
Contract Instructor with EURUS Summer 2017
Applications are invited from members of the CUPE 4600 bargaining unit and other interested persons to teach the following European, Russian and Eurasian Studies course during the Early Summer Term (May/June) 2017. EURR 4008/5008 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Eastern and Central Europe This course examines nationalism and ethnic politics in...
Trump, Brexit and the Rise of Europe’s Far-Right Stoke Fear in Brussels
published `By Jeff Stein form newsweek.com On December 3th 2016 “The ascendance of authoritarian and racist parties in Europe are a visceral threat to those whose families survived the pogroms of the past.” Freedom Party of Austria: The country’s far-right party explained When I first met Katrine Steinfeld over dinner in Brussels a few...
“Ukraine Is Approaching the Turning Point: The Choice Is Reform or Chaos,” Saakashvili Warns
Former Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili’s opening remarks at the Kyiv Post’s Tiger Conference on November 29 were puzzling. “Thanks for a couple of cameras,” he said.He was referring to the fact that even though he is a national figure with a resonant message in Ukraine, he’s the victim of a news blackout by the...
False News
Originally produced on Nov. 28, 2016 for Mauldin Economics, LLC George Friedman Since the election last month of Donald Trump as the U.S. president, something considered to be a new phenomenon has become a focus of attention. Some suspect that false news may have swayed the election. Perhaps equally as important, some claim this false news was...
Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-Japan
On December 16, the Institute of World Policy will hold the public debate on Ukrainian-Japanese relations. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Norbert Hofer lost – so why are his party so happy?
“Grandma Gertrude” must be celebrating: Her favoured candidate, Alexander van der Bellen, will be the next Austrian president. And she herself will long be remembered for her moving video endorsement of him, which went viral within and beyond the little Alpine country of 8.7 million inhabitants. While it will of course be impossible to measure...
The Scandinavian equilibrium: between Russia and NATO
Russia / Europe The annexation of Crimea and the military operations taking place in south-eastern Ukraine are perceived as a Europe-wide threat to security. The latest report on Sweden’s security policy states that the conflict between Russia and the West is not limited to Central Europe but has spilled over into the Baltic states. Russian...
