... and Afghanistan, as well as Kashmir?
How will the entry of the Islamic State into Afghanistan impact the ongoing war between NATO and the Taliban? The U.S. refused to participate in the third round of a conference on Afghanistan that involved 11 regional ... ... down trade and other sanctions that generally hurt all sides, even if unevenly?
Given the negative Russian reaction to the EU Eastern Partnership, and the expansion of EU influence into post-Soviet states, including Ukraine and Belarus, what if EU took ...
... European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), namely, stabilization and differentiation (i.e. the use of tailor-made approaches with the Eastern Partnership member states), are implemented, there will be a real possibility to reduce tensions in Eastern Europe. At ... ... according to existing rules. Russia assumes that over the past two decades Europe has de facto failed to follow any rules, given NATO’s eastward expansion and refusal of the West to engage in a dialogue on the establishment of a collective security ...
... Ukraine's economy afloat, especially in light of all the problematic economies it already has to worry about.
Although the Eastern Partnership project certainly does have geopolitical consequences, the interests of most EU members, to the extent that ... ..., apart from the interests of its politically-inflluential Ukrainian Diaspora. However, once the decision was made to expand NATO eastwards, it acquired a logic and momentum of its own, eventually putting NATO membership for Ukraine on the agenda. Many ...
... somehow managed to cope with this for the past three months.
What do you think of the prospects for the Eastern Partnership?
The Eastern Partnership initiative entails a geopolitical repartition of the whole region. In fact, this program changes boundaries,... ... Tsymbursky, who regarded the entire system from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea as a single geopolitical system Intermarium.
When NATO's eastward expansion started, a huge contested space appeared between Russia and NATOl the area stretching from the Baltic ...
... Federation, has expressed Russian attitude to this issue on 49th Munich Security Conference stating that international partners are “inventing new dividing lines”[3]. All in all, for Russia it would be very unwelcome step if Ukraine joined NATO.
Energy policies
Not less important red line is cooperation on energy policies. The Russian Federation is the biggest gas supplier to countries of the Eastern Partnership and essential partner of Ukraine regarding oil and nuclear fuel. The struggle in this field is especially for Ukraine, as it is quite crucial country for transit of Russian gas to the Central Europe and a huge trading partner. Ukraine ...
