Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Hillary Clinton Never Met a War She Didn’t Want Other Americans to Fight
Doug Bandow Never before were the two leading presidential candidates so disliked. Both major parties have nominated candidates that most Americans desperately want to reject. There many reasons to oppose Hillary Clinton: a history of scandal, reaching back to Bill Clinton’s Arkansas governorship; greedy, grasping friendships with economic...
Not Frozen!
Since 2014 German and European attention has been largely absorbed by the annexation of Crimea, the war in Donbas and the crisis in relations with Russia. Yet the eastern neighbourhood also contains four unresolved territorial conflicts, which have in some respects developed very dynamically since 2014. The authors of this study examine the role...
Trump, Putin and Race
The real reason behind this odd bromance. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Continental Partnership proposal: a reply to five main criticisms
As Europe comes to terms with the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU, there is great debate about the future of EU-UK relations. In this context, together with three colleagues, we recently proposed the creation of a Continental Partnership (CP) to structure the relationship between the UK and the EU after Brexit. The CP offers a...
Ahead of MH17 Report, Russia Says if Plane Shot Down, Ukraine Pulled Trigger
September 27, 2016 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Russia Slams Western Charges of ‘War Crimes’ in Syria
UN envoy Vitaly Churkin blames breakdown of ceasefire on Syrian rebels, dismisses reports of mass killing in eastern Aleppo as faked. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Countering Information War – Lessons Learned from NATO and Partner Countries
NATO Liaison Office in Georgia, Tsinamdzgvrishvili street No. 162, Tbilisi, Georgia27 September, 2016 – 09:30 to 28 September, 2016 – 14:00The expert workshop “Countering Information War – Lessons Learned from NATO and Partner Countries” in Tbilisi is organized within the project “Countering Information War – Lessons Learned from NATO...
Russia’s Next Move on Ukraine
The most likely scenario for eastern Ukraine is that a low-level conflict will continue to simmer. Moscow needs to give up its pipe dream that a pro-Russian government will come to power in Kiev, and forget its convenient but misleading stereotypes about its large neighbor. | Русский …read more Source: Carnegie Moscow...
What’s holding Russia back from ratifying the Paris climate agreement?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that his country will ratify the Paris climate agreement in October, a significant boost in the campaign to have the agreement become legally binding by the end of the year. India will join the 61 other countries that have formally signed up to limit future global temperature rise to a maximum of...
Finnish GDP will grow slightly faster than anticipated in the spring
Finland’s GDP will grow by 1.1-1.2 per cent in 2016-2018; the focus of demand will gradually shift from the domestic markets to exports The volume of exports will hardly grow hardly at all in 2016; growth is expected to be 2.5-3 per cent in 2017 and 2018 as investment demand of export countries recovers somewhat and the competitiveness...
