Averting Crisis In Ukraine

Author : Steven Pifer
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780876094273

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This Council Special Report, commissioned by CFR's Center for Preventive Action, takes all these issues into account and examines the many challenges facing Ukraine. The report comprehensively analyzes the country's difficulties, related to both domestic conditions -- for example, fractious politics and deeply divided public opinion -- and foreign policy -- for example, issues related to the Black Sea Fleet and Ukrainian and European dependence on Russia's natural gas. The report then recommends ways for the United States to encourage Ukraine on a path of stability and integration with the West. It proposes measures to bolster high-level dialogue between Washington and Kiev, foster effective governance in Ukraine, and reduce Ukraine's susceptibility to Russian pressure. On the crucial NATO question, the report urges the United States to support continued Ukrainian integration with the alliance, though it recommends waiting to back concrete steps toward membership until Kiev achieves consensus on this point. One need not agree with this judgment to find Pifer's analysis of value. Averting Crisis in Ukraine takes a clear-eyed look at the issues that could cause instability -- or worse -- in Ukraine. But it also recommends practical steps that could increase the prospect that Ukraine will enjoy a prosperous, democratic, and independent future.

Author : Steven Pifer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396868184

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Author : Nicolai Petro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351870085

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Ukraine in Crisis by Nicolai Petro Pdf

In this comprehensive volume, Canadian, Ukrainian, and American scholars examine various aspects of the Ukrainian crisis, and consider its impact on Europe. The chapters include topics such as: Russian narratives about Ukraine; the conflicting assumptions underlying their divergent nation-building agendas; new findings about the far right's involvement in the Maidan protests; the Ukrainian crisis from the perspective of Western grand strategy; the security implications of Russia's geopolitical agenda in Ukraine; the factors that contributed to the rise of separatism in Donbass; and the economic costs for Ukraine of choosing economic integration with Europe rather than Eurasia. This book demonstrates that the current crisis in Ukraine is much more complex than comes across in the media. It also explores the fact that, since Russia and Ukraine will always be neighbours, some sort of modus vivendi between them will have to be found. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.

Author : Karol Kujawa,Valeriy Morkva,Klaus Bachmann,Monika Byrska ,Filiz Çoban,Soner Karagül,Marta Králiková,Jan Muś,Sezai Ozcelik,Didem Saygin,Emanuele Scimia,Ercüment Tezcan,Mehlika Özlem Ultan,Andrei Vardomatski
Publisher : ASLAN Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788393914173

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2014 Crisis in Ukraine. Perspectives, Reflections, International Reverberations by Karol Kujawa,Valeriy Morkva,Klaus Bachmann,Monika Byrska ,Filiz Çoban,Soner Karagül,Marta Králiková,Jan Muś,Sezai Ozcelik,Didem Saygin,Emanuele Scimia,Ercüment Tezcan,Mehlika Özlem Ultan,Andrei Vardomatski Pdf

This book is a collective attempt to present a wide-ranging picture of international attitudes towards the events currently ongoing in Ukraine. As some experts have already tended to claim, in 2014 this post-Soviet state lying in the Eastern part of the European continent has become a scene of the most serious geopolitical standoff since the end of the Cold war. It would be in place here to remind a well-known clear-cut maxim, formulated by Zbigniew Brzeziński in late 1990s and concerning Ukraine’s key role in shaping the Russian imperial self-identity: “Without Ukraine Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire”. So what may readers expect to find in this book? It has been divided into two parts, reflecting the perspectives on Ukrainian crisis: first, the perspective of Ukraine’s close neighbours from Central Eastern Europe and Turkey; second, the perspectives of the global players like the EU, the US or China. We hope that such a publication focused on the above-mentioned problems and embedded in the actual reality will be useful both for professionals in the field of political science, as well as for those who have an influence on the shape of the foreign policy.

Author : Michael F. Oppenheimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199397099

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Pivotal Countries, Alternate Futures by Michael F. Oppenheimer Pdf

Michael Oppenheimer's Pivotal Countries, Alternate Futures is both a synthesis of our knowledge on scenario planning and a practical guide for policymakers. One of America's leading scenario planners, Oppenheimer has advised the Department of State, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the President's Science Advisor, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Brookings Institution. In this book, he develops a sophisticated and coherent method for foreign policy specialists who necessarily deal with rapidly changing situations involving high levels of uncertainty. As he explains, figuring out possible outcomes and designing and appropriate policy requires an ability to identify the drivers of change, the potential wild card events, and the central policy questions in any given situation. Once policymakers determine these, they must plan a scenario. To do that, planners need to know how to build the best team of experts possible, run a session, and create credible narratives for different scenario alternatives. To illustrate how it all works, Oppenheimer draws from a range of real-life planning scenarios, including China and Syria. To be sure, new crises will arise that supplant these current ones, but his basic method will aid policymakers in almost every future situation. While nothing ever goes completely to plan-least of all international conflict-preparing with multiple scenarios in mind will always be the least worst approach to global and regional crises. Methodologically rigorous and comprehensive, Pivotal Countries, Alternate Futures will be essential reading for policymakers and policy students trying to determine the best path forward in any given crisis.

Author : Ivan Katchanovski,Zenon E. Kohut,Bohdan Y. Nebesio,Myroslav Yurkevich
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810878471

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Historical Dictionary of Ukraine by Ivan Katchanovski,Zenon E. Kohut,Bohdan Y. Nebesio,Myroslav Yurkevich Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of Ukraine, Second Edition covers the history of Ukraine and its struggles through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on population, geography, economy, politics, and culture; descriptions of institutions, cultural monuments, political parties, battles and wars; and biographical sketches of key individuals in politics, the arts and sciences, the church, and the military. This book is a vital reference tool for any researcher interested in the history of Ukraine.

Author : Steven Vincent Dunaway
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780876094280

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Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis by Steven Vincent Dunaway Pdf

Crafting stimulus packages and financial bailouts to address immediate problems has for many reasons been a priority for policymakers. In this Council Special Report, however, Steven Dunaway argues that policymakers must go beyond these steps and tackle one of the root causes of today's crisis: imbalances between savings and investment in major countries. The report analyzes the nature of these imbalances, which occur when some countries, such as the United States, run large current account (essentially trade) deficits while others, such as China, maintain large surpluses. Dunaway identifies three features of the international financial system that have allowed the imbalances to persist, features that involve both floating and managed exchange rates as well as the issuance of reserve assets. In particular, he notes that the United States' status as an issuer of such assets has enabled it to finance a current account deficit. The report then prescribes a variety of steps to address global imbalances. Beyond stimulus packages around the world, it urges measures to raise savings (principally government savings) in the United States, reform labor and product markets in Europe and Japan to increase competition and flexibility, and boost domestic consumption in China. Finally, the report advocates improving International Monetary Fund (IMF) surveillance of member states' economic policies by reducing the role of the Fund's executive board and depoliticizing the selection of its senior management.

Author : Vebi Kosumi
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781546288886

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Can Crimea Claim Secession and Accession to Russian Federation in Light of Kosovo’S Independence? by Vebi Kosumi Pdf

The book examines Crimeas case and its accession to the Russian Federation (RF) in light of the Kosovo independence. It relies on academic sources including journals and archives from the Soviet Union, RF, Ukraine, Former Yugoslavia, Serbia, and Kosovo as well as current media sources in light of the continuing evolution of the Crimean situation.

Author : Jeffrey Mankoff
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780876094846

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The Russian Economic Crisis by Jeffrey Mankoff Pdf

This US report argues that Russia's economic crisis presents an opportunity to deepen American and European economic ties with Russia and integrate the country more firmly in the international system, something that could, over time, bring Russian and Western interests closer together.

Author : Benn Steil
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780876094327

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Lessons of the Financial Crisis by Benn Steil Pdf

The current financial and economic crisis is a classic bust of a credit boom, the boom having been fueled by policies whose combined effects were to increase the demand for debt to unsustainable levels. U.S. monetary policy, taxation policy, and home ownership promotion policy were so conducive to credit expansion that the idea, understandably popular in Washington and Brussels, that preventing future such crises can be accomplished simply by waking up regulators "asleep at the switch" is dangerously simplistic. The United States in particular, given that it effectively sets monetary and credit conditions for a significant portion of the global economy, needs to put in place policies that can better discourage, recognize, and curtail a credit boom, and ensure that systemically important financial institutions can withstand its unwinding.

Author : Eugene M. Fishel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674279186

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The Moscow Factor by Eugene M. Fishel Pdf

Eugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine’s sovereignty in its relations with Moscow. The Moscow Factor brings together for the first time documentary evidence and declassified materials, retrospective articles by former policymakers, and memoirs by erstwhile senior officials.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Strategic Forces Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ballistic missiles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050688584

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Russian Violations of the INF Treaty by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Strategic Forces Subcommittee Pdf

Author : Sertif Demir
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781627345866

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Turkey's Foreign Policy and Security Perspectives in the 21st Century by Sertif Demir Pdf

This books aims at analyzing Turkish foreign and security policies in the 21st century. Turkey’s foreign and security policies have become the focus of academic discussions since Turkey is located in the middle of the most unstable region in the world. Turkey’s self-assured foreign policy has similarly attracted the attention of academicians worldwide. Meanwhile, Turkey’s security policy has also been the subject of discussions as the country has been struggling with ethnic terrorism for 35 years. Furthermore, the US invasion of Iraq and the recent Syrian civil war, along with other factors, have caused religious radicalism to expand its power throughout the Middle East, which has heavily impacted on Turkey’s security. Turkey’s longstanding problems with its neighbors have also affected the general characteristics of its foreign policy, particularly leading to its securitization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781584874492

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The Russian Military Today and Tomorrow :. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Micah Zenko
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780876095447

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Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies by Micah Zenko Pdf

Douglas Dillon Fellow Micah Zenko analyzes the potentially serious consequences, both at home and abroad, of a lightly overseen drone program and makes recommendations for improving its governance.