... 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... ... 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... ... refugee crisis from eastern Ukraine to Russia and from Syria and other countries to the European Union countries? How should Russia and the European Union respond?
Impact of...
... however, Ambassador of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Douglas E. Lute said that an airbase would not alter the balance of forces in... ... EEU integration with trade associations in the East and the West, including with the European Union. The strategic positions of Moscow and Minsk are similar; however, given... ... 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...
... and negotiated. If it had been, Russia might have ended up as a strategic partner rather than a geopolitical adversary.
The Eastern Partnership is essentially a project of anti-Russian Swedes and Poles, with much of the EU, going along with the project ... ..., 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 ...
... February 2013. Available on-line: http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-D61F1587-690B6A0D/natolive/news_98730.htm
[3] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation... ... on-line: http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/0/A9CB4318DB0A5C8444257B0A00376FE8
[4] Council of the European Union 16th EU-Ukraine Summit: Joint Statement. Brussels, 25 February 2013,... ....com/content/ukraine/ukraine-seeks-spot-supply-from-europe-to-replace-russian-gas-320984.html
[6] 16th EU-Ukraine Summit: Joint Statement, p.3
[7] Zagorski, A. (2011) Eastern Partnership from the Russian Perspective. In: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft...