Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
The Future of Kazakhstan’s Multi-vector Policy
Kazakhstan must continue its multi-vector policy by deepening its non-Russian relationships, while shifting its focus to internal challenges. April 28, 2016 By Joshua Noonan In its first decades of freedom, Kazakhstan’s sovereignty has been guaranteed through a cunning policy of external balancing made famous in its “multi-vector policy.”...
Big Oil Isn’t Going Down Without a Fight
(Photo: Flickr / Yann Caradec) An extreme weather event hits Norway. Finally shocked into doing something radical about climate change, Norwegian citizens propel the Green Party into government, where it declares an immediate suspension of oil and gas production. The new prime minister promises to provide Europe instead with electricity from the...
Ukraine Reform Monitor: April 2016
Ukraine is in danger of repeating its experience after the 2004 Orange Revolution, when reformers won the vote in national elections but failed to govern effectively. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
HCSS: The consequences of the Dutch ‘no’
On the 6th of April Dutch voters rejected the ratification of the European Union’s Association Agreement with Ukraine. With a turnout of 32.2 per cent and a majority of 61.1 per cent of the voters saying… …read more Source: The Hague Centre for Strategic...
Propaganda and Censorship: Adapting to the Modern Age
By Mark Fahey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The role of propaganda and censorship is not as obvious as it may seem. From the infamous propaganda arm of North Korean government to the state-run media organizations in China and Russia, it is clear that the mechanisms and effectiveness of propaganda and censorship vary widely. During the height...
The establishment of a self-regulating body of the Prosecutor rules out the chances of Ukraine’s prosecutor’s office being reformed
The establishment of a self-regulating body in the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office has eliminated the possibility that this organisation will be reformed. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Crimean Court Bans Tatar Assembly
The highest representative body of the indigenous community accused of spreading “aggression and hatred towards Russia.” …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Post-Soviet ‘frozen conflicts’
The number of post-Soviet frozen conflicts has only grown, as a result of the failure of international mediation to solve them. After Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria and Abkhazia and South Ossetia, it seems that eastern Ukraine also qualifies as a frozen conflict. …read more Source:...
Foreign Policy Audit: Ukraine-Austria
The discussion paper was written by Daria Gaidai, research fellow at the Institute of World Policy. …read more Source: Institute of World...
Energy across the Mediterranean: a call for realism
THE ISSUE Political instability in the southern Mediterranean countries have highlighted the unsustainability of their economic models. Widespread economic discontent, and in particular very high youth unemployment, underpinned the Arab Spring uprisings. As the refugee crisis shows, this is also Europe’s problem and Euro-Mediterranean...
