Section: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (USA)
Business, Power, and Property Rights in Russia after Crimea
Twenty-three years after its emergence as an independent state, Russia’s institutions are still incomplete. It possesses open markets, competitive pricing, and appropriate fiscal tools to promote economic growth, but it lacks rule of law and independent courts. Paradoxically, Russia’s business community has never really championed...
Hitting the Pause Button: The “Frozen Conflict” Dilemma in Ukraine
For some time, Ukraine is likely to host frozen conflicts, in Crimea and the Donbas region. Elections last Sunday in the Russian-armed, rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine reinforced this. …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
The Role of Ultra-Nationalism in Conflict and Crisis: Russia, Ukraine and the EU
This event will highlight the growing and complicated role of radical nationalist groups in European politics. It will focus on the positions of Russian neo-fascist, fundamentalist, and ethnocentrist groups towards the Kremlin’s recent foreign and domestic policies, as well as the complications resulting from Ukrainian nationalism in...
Why Ukraine’s future is vital to West
Ukrainians have voted, and they have overwhelmingly chosen to stay the course on European integration. …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Ukraine’s Election Delivers a New Generation of Leadership
In an exclusive interview, newly elected member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Hanna Hopko, shares her thoughts on post-election voter expectations and the challenges she and her party faces. Her party, the Samopomich (“Self-Reliance”) Party, polled at less than 5% before the election. But after the votes were counted, Samopomich is the third...
Why Sending Weapons to Ukraine Would be a Terrible Idea for the US
The Ukraine Freedom Support Act, passed last month by the US senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, could mark a new kind of policy for the US in Ukraine. It doesn’t propose new sanctions, or the “major non-NATO ally” designation for Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, but instead grants permission to send Ukraine a variety of weapons,...
“A Sort of Chautauqua”
Kennan Institute/Harriman Institute Contemporary Ukrainian Literature SeriesDirections: Directions to the Wilson Center …read more Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for...
Teleconference Ukraine: Elections Amid Ceasefire and Conflict
There is much riding on the early parliamentary elections in Ukraine on October 26. Ukrainians face an ongoing war despite the tenuous ceasefire in the Donbas region, and severe economic pressures. The desperate need for reform is still at the top of the agenda for Maidan activists who overthrew the Yanukovych regime in February, and for the...
Ukraine, Russia, and the International Order
Over the last twenty-five years, the ideal of an integrated Euro-Atlantic community including Russia has gradually faded, as new dividing lines seem to be hardening on the European continent. The Ukrainian crisis and conflict with Russia have effectively brought an end to the post-Cold War era; it remains an open question what will be the...
