Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Women and Peacekeeping: Time for the UN to Commit to Gender Equality
UN peacekeepers are deployed to make local populations more safe and secure. They must not be allowed to become another source of insecurity for the people they are sent to serve. The new Secretary-General should commit to gender equality in order to ensure that peacekeeping lives up to its promise. It was confirmed that the call by numerous...
Ukraine’s Reforms Are Pointless without Resolving Security Issues
Making Western assistance to Kyiv more effective is crucial to Ukraine’s future. Yet, the West’s current approach is plagued by a strategic defect. When Western aid and Kyiv’s reforms reach a tipping point, they will trigger increasingly aggressive counter-reactions from Moscow for domestic political reasons in Russia. Until...
Implementing the EU global strategy: who, what and how?
Written by Patryk Pawlak, EPRS Policy Roundtable: ‘ The EU’s Global Strategy: from Vision to Action ‘ The EU global strategy, presented by High Representative Federica Mogherini in June 2016, aims to give the European Union a collective sense of direction in dealing with external challenges like the conflict in Syria, sanctions on Russia,...
Trump, Putin and Sluggish Reforms Push Ukraine Toward Russia
November 15, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Retired Ukrainian Turns Apartment Building into Modern-Day Versailles
Passionate about Baroque, the author of the makeover wanted to “make something beautiful and unusual.” …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Strengthening Putin’s Political Position in Russia
The result of the presidential election in the United States will strengthen the political position of Russian President Vladimir Putin, both in terms of internal political power and international relations. Putin’s aim is to extend his regime’s hold on power, via re-election in 2018. He will seek to gain from the electoral defeat of...
Campaigning in the Eastern European Borderlands
By Antonia Colibasanu Several countries in the borderlands between Russia and the rest of Europe are changing leadership – but not their foreign policy. Russia-friendly politicians won presidential elections in Bulgaria and Moldova. On Nov. 9, the Estonian parliament passed a no-confidence vote against the government that may lead the pro-Russian...
Here’s How China and Russia Will Test Trump.
“China and Russia intend to test—and humble—the America of President Trump. So whatever he thinks now, the new American leader is going to need friends and allies.” Gordon G. Chang Donald Trump’s foreign policy, especially in his first months in office, probably will bear no relation to what he has ever said. Or thought. Why? Trump is...
What will Trump’s foreign policy look like?
Trying to predict Donald Trump’s foreign policy is a complex exercise, which inevitably produces vertigo in those bold enough to undertake it. In the past year, the president-elect has offered so many vague, simplistic and inconsistent foreign policy declarations that it’s basically impossible to pin them down to some essential common...
Putin warns Merkel Russian gas piped to EU could be siphoned off in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday (14 November) of the risk of Ukraine siphoning off Russian gas destined for Europe, the Kremlin said. …read more Source:...
