When choosing means losing The trade relations of the six countries of the Eastern Partnership is a complex web of discrepancies. They have assigned different association agreements with Russia and the EU. The coexistence of these two models of economic integration poses challenges - and problems. By Heidi Hautala
How to Achieve Peace in Eastern Europe Today, the future of European nations is at stake in eastern Ukraine. If not effectively addressed, the Ukrainian crisis will pose the biggest threat the EU’s member states have experienced since 1945. By Mikhail Minakov
Challenges for Europe’s Policies Towards Eastern Europe The crisis in Ukraine with all its reverberations comes at a moment when the EU and the European project are very weak and while international insecurity is on the rise. As a result the Perspectives for the EU’s Eastern Partnership will have to change. By Francisco de Borja Lasheras
International Conference: Ukraine, Russia and the EU One year after the annexation of Crimea, European and US experts analysed and discussed Europe’s response to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. The conference documentation offers articles, recordings and photos.
The gravitational pull of the Soviet Union While Russia is redrawing the European map, Ukraine needs to move forward: A hybrid war cannot be ended with a hybrid peace and an economic crisis cannot be overcome with hybrid reforms. Changes have to be fast and radical. By Svitlana Zalishchuk
The Kremlin’s doctrine of survival: Forward to the past The Russian personalised power system is showing an amazing capacity to survive – even in an advanced state of decay. By Lilia Shevtsova
Hannah Arendt, Putin and Today’s Russia Hannah Arendt would have found a lot to dislike about today’s Russia. But she would have loved Pussy Riot. An excerpt from the lecture of Ralf Fücks upon the occasion of the 2014 Hannah Arendt Prize. By Ralf Fücks
BRICS Summit: Restructuring Global Affairs India's new prime minister Narendra Modi succesfully presented his ideas of national development on his first international summit. Its most important outcome: a common BRICS Development Banc that could challenge the global financial order. By Avani Tewari
Germany and Russia: as much cooperation as possible; as much conflict as necessary The EU cannot give up on the project of a unified and free Europe without giving up on itself. This includes the promise that all European nations on the path to becoming a democracy and constitutional state can become a member of the European Community. Ukraine is the touchstone of this promise today. By Ralf Fücks
Assessing the Need to Regulate U.S. Conventional Prompt Global Strike Systems The United States intent to deploy a new Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS). This short paper assesses the chief challenges the United States faces in allaying Russian concerns about about CPGS deployments. By Dennis M. Gormley