ukraine16Zhyldyz Oskonbaeva
(RIEAS Senior Advisor & Eurasian Liaison)

Daniel Little
(RIES Senior Advisor)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication Date: 6 September 2014

Achieving 'Harmony in the World' through international cooperation or scourging those 'Disrupting the Peace' are simple enough themes for short media segments but for pragmatists these are neither explanatory nor accurate. Instead realists argue that harmony and peace are illusory ideals which never existed. In world affairs the analogy of 'balancing' or more commonly the 'Balance of Power' appears more apt. Such is the case of Russia's relationship with the Ukraine. Not all that long ago Russia literally had its say in affairs in each of the regions it bordered. Whether it was Eurasia, the Caucasus or particularly in Eastern Europe, everyone looked to Moscow's reaction first before deciding anything on their own. When the Soviet Union fell apart, the rest of the world believed that it was the end of "Russian Hegemony."..... Read more

azeri14Garanfil Hasanova
(RIEAS post-graduate internship fellow and Master of Public Administration Candidate of Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in the city of New York)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr), Publication date: 27 August 2014

All countries in the world differ from one another at some level, however, they still share similarities in many spheres, sometimes more, sometimes a few. Practices show that having more similarities in traditions and customs or life styles of people from different countries situated in various distances, is the result of political, diplomatic, businesslike relations and friendships that exist between those countries. Contemporary relationship existing between Azerbaijan and Greece is a solid example to this... Read more

Apostolos Skourtas
(RIEAS Research Associate)

Copyright: www.rieas.gr (Publication Date: 27 April 2014)
    
The importance of the maritime domain is beyond any comparison. It is of almost no use to start throwing numbers about the worth of the merchandise transported through the world’s oceans nor the volume or worth of the cargo in which oil and natural gas are transported globally. The problem is that in the high seas the environment is enormous and complex. High seas are an unregulated and complex space, thus extremely vulnerable to maritime threats. In the case of the Mediterranean, maritime security is too vague of a definition and has to be further defined. Is it maritime security in the terms of the European Union? Is it in the frame of NATO? Or is exclusively a responsibility of the coastal states?.... Read more

 

Taras Kuzio
(Toronto-based Research Associate at the Centre for Political and
Regional Studies, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) – www.rieas.gr –based in Athens, Greece – (Date of Publication: 12 February 2014).

The tragic murder of seven protesters on 22 January 2014, symbolically Ukrainian independence and unity day, is the first occasion this has happened in three decades when the country was still part of the Soviet Union. Although the use of firearms and other lethal weapons was authorized by the Nikolai Azarov government in three resolutions that same day under the presidential constitution the buck stops President Viktor Yanukovych..... Read more

Dr.  Taras Kuzio
(Centre for Political and Regional Studies,  Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) – www.rieas.gr – based in Athens, Greece - (Date of Publication: 4 February 2014).

Soviet political cultural tenets of xenophobia, spy-mania and conspiracy theories run throughout the working culture of the Russian and Ukrainian successor intelligence agencies to the Soviet KGB and foreigners (diplomats, journalists, businesspersons and human rights activists) are often assumed to be Western spies. Such mind sets were evident in legislation adopted in Russia and Ukraine that defined foundations and NGO’s that received foreign (i.e. Western, not Russian) funding as ‘foreign agents.... Read more

Asfandiyar Qamar
(Security Analyst)

Copyright: www.rieas.gr 

Since the revolution in 2011, Yemen’s new government under interim President Abd Mansour Al-Hadhi, has been attempting to undo the damage done to the country’s economy, system of governance, its natural resources, and its security situation, by years of political and economic mismanagement under former President, Ali Abdullah Saleh.

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