Online Expert Chat, 12 August 2022 Why Europe should also be interested in security guarantees for Ukraine? Why should any state take risks of providing security guarantees for Ukraine? What’s the best format for securing Ukraine? Can Russia be a credible security guarantor for Ukraine? Participants Dr Yevgeniya Gaber, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council in…
The recent intensification of EU-NATO dialogue alongside with the major strategic and operational changes within the Common Security and Defence Policy have reopened discussions about the future European security architecture. What is the role of both organisations and what configuration of their relations would be optimal? Will the EU ambition for strategic autonomy make a…
The article reviews results of the 2018 NATO summit in Brussels with a specific focus on the burden sharing debate. It also examines new priorities in the Alliance’s strategic planning. Further, perspectives of Ukraine’s closer cooperation with NATO are examined, given the dynamics of the conflict in the east of Ukraine and the intended process…
Venue: Kadir Has University, Istanbul Organizers: UA: Ukraine Analytica Center for European and International Studies, Kadir Has University With the financial support of the Black Sea Trust of the German Marshall Fund and NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine PANEL I: Is there a Black Sea Security Architecture? Is there a Black Sea security…
Is Ukraine a Security Provider or Security Consumer in Europe? It is a rather rhetorical question. Ukraine has always been an active contributor to European and Euro-Atlantic security. Ukraine’s peacekeeping contingents and personnel participated in a huge number of NATO’ and EU-led operations as well as in numerous missions under the UN umbrella all around…
The Warsaw Summit was held on 8-9 July 2016 with the assumption of “an essential Alliance in a more dangerous world” both in the eastern and in the southern flanks. Bearing in mind that the allies gathered in “a defining moment for the security of our nations and populations”, this contribution aims to analyse the…
The Ukrainian crisis demonstrated that lack of trust between major regional security players like NATO and Russia overshadows most regional disputes and conflicts. The article’s main argument is that problems in the two parties’ relations stem from NATO’s and Russia’s existential search for a new role after the end of the Cold War, when their…
In this article, we argue that Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine generates far-reaching consequences for both regional and global security. On the one hand, Russia appears as a revisionist state, which is challenging the existing world order, incompatible with an Anschluss. On the other hand, Russia’s capabilities of projecting power are limited mostly to…
