Current evolution of the transatlantic relations poses difficult dilemmas before the East-Central European countries, especially those who used to rely on partnership with the United States sometimes in defiance of the Berlin/ Brussels politics. Donald Trump’s intention to force the European allies to pay a “fair share” for the NATO security faces the unwillingness of…
In this article, the attempt is made to study the causes of US policy towards the North Atlantic Alliance under the administration of the 45th US president. American policy is analysed through the prism of renegotiation/new bargain concepts and from the standpoint of US domestic political considerations. This article also provides an analysis of European…
Recent steps by the Kremlin not only undermine regional security in Europe, but they also put transatlantic unity under the test. Partly this is a result of the overall degrading of international institutions in times of crisis, but also it is an effect of Russia’s deliberate efforts to smantle key transatlantic institutions. Moscow’s revisionist policy…
The article tries to answer the question of how Ukraine created cooperation with NATO in the perspective of freezing the Donbas conflict in the East. Pursuant to the decisions from the Newport and Warsaw summits, NATO returned to its traditional functions of defence and strengthened the Eastern flank of the Alliance. In the context of…
The article includes a research of the main trends and their components of the change in the European security environment; it considers political steps of the main international actors within the sphere of the regional security architecture. The author describes the possibilities of enhancing regional cooperation, an implementation of multilateral initiatives in the context of…
Donald Trump’s first foreign visit can be considered as a moment to finally provide some conceptual insight into his external policy. It has been wrapped as “principled realism”. So far, it seems to generate additional uncertainty, rather than make things more clear, especially in what oncerns the future of the transatlantic strategic partnership. Undermining mutual…
The nature of relations between Ukraine as a social and political agent and NATO as a security community is based on a complex structure of behavioural norms, frames, and values. A number of those, inherent to NATO, have been incorporated by Ukraine through its intensive discursive practices with the Alliance. The latter caused sufficient changes…
Нове безпекове середовище, серед іншого, відчуває асиметричні загрози безпеці, які часто називають гібридною війною або застосуванням тактики сірої зони. В той час, як за останнє десятиліття подібну тактику застосовували різноманітні нерегулярні збройні формування, дії Російської Федерації восени 2014 року проти свого сусіда України, відзначили початок нової ери для міжнародного порядку. В цій статті досліджуються дії…
