The Bucharest Summit Revisited | Interview with Nicu Popescu
(Georgia Today) Georgia has been waiting 10 years for NATO to come good on its promise, given at the 2008 Bucharest Summit, that Georgia (and Ukraine) would one day become…
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Reconsidering NATO expansion: a counterfactual analysis of Russia and the West in the 1990s
(EJIS) Abstract: This article re-examines the history of NATO’s original post-Cold War enlargement to include the Visegrad states of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. It uses both published materials and…
Baev: Relations between Turkey and Russia may appear to be friendly but they are loaded with contradictions
(RUDAW) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday meets his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks on Syria and a key weapons deal, hoping to strengthen an increasingly active relationship…
President Trump’s Warsaw Speech: A Window into a Trump Doctrine?
Donald Trump has been the president of the United States for half a year. Over this time, observers have been trying to see through the cloud of his often controversial…
Baev: In principle, the exercises in Georgia are not a threat to Russian security
(RFI) US Vice President Mike Pence is on a visit to Russia’s former allies, Estonia, Georgia and Montenegro, which are now closer to the West than ever to the dismay…
Oleksandr Sushko on NATO membership and Ukraine
(Hromadske) The Ukrainian Parliament has decided to support the country embarking on a course towards joining NATO. 276 deputies voted in favour of a draft law on amendements to some legislative…
Taylor: No one really knows what the U.S. policy is going to be on NATO
(Fox News) Recent talk about a potential European Union move to establish its own nuclear weapons program is being met with skepticism by some top U.S. experts on the matter.…
Tensions with Russia Heat up the Melting Arctic
(PONARS Policy Memo) In a 1987 speech in Murmansk, Mikhail Gorbachev famously called for the Arctic to become a “zone of peace.” Since the end of the Cold War, Arctic states…
A Reluctant Partner: Georgian-German Relations Revisited
(PONARS Policy Memo) For Georgia, the enacting of an Association Agreement with the EU in the summer of 2016 was a pivotal moment in cementing its strategic bonds with Europe. The…
Reducing Tensions Between Russia and NATO
(CFR Report) “[Vladimir] Putin’s aggression makes the possibility of a war in Europe between nuclear-armed adversaries frighteningly real,” writes Kimberly Marten in a new Council Special Report on tensions between Russia and the…