Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Washington’s Patience with Kyiv Runs Thin
Last week my colleagues Mustafa Nayyem, Svitlana Zalishchuk, and I had dozens of meetings in the United States. Our impression was disappointing. Since the resignation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Washington’s favorite Ukrainian politician), reports of further corruption, and the lack of progress in resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the...
A Government is Seizing Control of Our Election Process, and It Is Not the Russians
There is an attempt underway for a government to take control of our election process and throw the election to Hillary Clinton. It is not the Russian government. Mark this day — it is when we came to understand that the American government decided to elect a president.(Note: I understand in the minds of the mass media the most important issue in...
Six Tasks for the New UN Secretary-General António Guterres
By choosing a former head of government as the UN’s ninth Secretary-General, the UN Security Council has expressed its wish for a more decisive executive. António Guterres lacks neither skills nor determination, but he has a tough task ahead.After four months and six rounds of votes, the UN Security Council has chosen its successor to Ban...
Russia Moves Missiles to NATO’s Baltic Border
Members of the military alliance squirm as Moscow transfers nuclear capable Iskander-M missiles to its Kaliningrad enclave. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Putin Has Made Russia America’s Top Spoiler, Not Its Global Peer
Transatlantic TakeRussia has dominated the U.S. foreign policy discussion in recent weeks, and it has been an international issue making headlines throughout the U.S. presidential election campaign. With its actions in Syria and Ukraine, its probing of the Euro-Atlantic security architecture, and its apparent interference in the U.S. campaign,...
V4+ Security: Strengthening the Eastern Frontier of the V4
Park Hotel Praha, Veletržní 20, Prague10 October, 2016 – 19:00 to 11 October, 2016 – 16:30GLOBSEC Policy Institute is taking part at the kick-off meeting of the V4+ Security: Strengthening the Eastern Frontier of the V4 project organized on the 11th October in Prague. The project will consist of 4 workshops, organized in Kiev, Prague,...
Syria needs the best of the West’s diplomats; not lawyers
Getting the US and Russia to work together in Syria was always going to be difficult. Now it looks as though a diplomatic solution was from the start a mirage at best and a trick at worst. Almost every day brings news of the further breakdown in US-Russia relations. As the death toll from Russian-Syrian aerial bombardment of Aleppo climbs, US...
Syria needs diplomats, not lawyers
Getting the US and Russia to work together in Syria was always going to be difficult. Now it looks as though a diplomatic solution was from the start a mirage at best and a trick at worst. Almost every day brings news of the further breakdown in US-Russia relations. As the death toll from Russian-Syrian aerial bombardment of Aleppo climbs, US...
Relationship with Putin as a war criminal became irreversible after the veto on the UN Security Council
Piontkovsky: Relationship with Putin as a war criminal became irreversible after the veto on the UN Security Council /Syrian Aleppo – the sacrificial lamb which is prepared for the New Year worldwide slaughter?/- GCSSI. 10/9/16 Andrei Piontkovsky … With regard to the Syrian army will be taken of Aleppo, the way yesterday and discussed at the...
Tip of the Iceberg: Russian Use of Power in Syria
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 371 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Russians are determined to reacquire some of the status once enjoyed by the Soviet Union of yore. They believe Western carelessness is to blame for the rise of Islamic State, and are using the Syrian theater to demonstrate their strategic capability. Russia’s status in the Middle...
