Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Watch List: Dec. 14, 2016
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...
25 Years without the Soviet Union: where are post-Soviet trajectories heading?
Language English On December 8, 2016, President of CASE, Dr. Christopher A. Hartwell talked during the discussion session “Reality Check: A new Cold War?” at the international conference “25 years without the Soviet Union: where are post-Soviet trajectories heading?” organized by the expert initiative “Minsk dialogue”. The events’s agenda...
Presentation of the research paper “Audit of the Minsk Agreemnets”
On December 19, the Institute of World Policy will hold presentation and discussion of the research paper on implementation of Minsk Agreements and possible scenarios for Ukraine …read more Source: Institute of World...
‘Many not happy’ with Dutch limits of Ukraine pact
Many countries are not happy with the arrangement to push through the EU-Ukraine pact following the Dutch referendum, in which a majority of votes rejected the deal, a diplomat said ahead of tomorrow’s (15 December) EU summit. …read more Source:...
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....
