Recommended Reading
On this page you will find select links to interesting reports and events.
April
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The power of a promise: Understanding Ukraine’s bilateral security agreements (Leo Litra, ECFR)
- Brave New Ukraine (Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs)
- Imagine Defeat (Jeffrey Gedmin, American Purpose)
- Dictators International (Alexander Lukashuk, American Purpose)
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The Obstacles to Diplomacy in Ukraine (Branislav L. Slantchev and Hein Goemans, Foreign Affairs)
March
- Sanctions on Russia: Getting the Facts Right (FREE Network)
February
- A long war works against Ukraine – and the West’s own security (James Nixey, Chatham House)
January
- Protecting Ukraine Aid from Western Political Dysfunction (Torbjörn Becker & Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Project Syndicate)
December
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Georgian citizens prepare for 2024 (Mark Temnycky, New Eastern Europe)
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Armenia and Azerbaijan Conclude the Year With Hopeful Prospects for Peace (Vasif Huseynov, Jamestown Foundation)
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Russia’s Row With Finland Exacerbates Baltic Solitude (Pavel K. Baev, Jamestown Foundation)
November
- A New Vision for the Transatlantic Alliance: The Future of European Security, the United States, and the World Order after Russia’s War in Ukraine (CEPA)
- Stalemate best describes the state of war in Ukraine (Ivo Daalder, Politico)
- War in Ukraine - perspectives on peace talks (Timothy Ash, Substack)
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Behind the Lines: The Race to Rescue Ukraine’s Stolen Children (Elina Betekova, CEPA)
Oktober
- What Russia’s budget reveals about the war in Ukraine (The Economist)
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The Dream of a European Security Order With Russia Is Dead (Kristi Raik, Foreign Policy)
- Regaining Georgia After Victory in Ukraine (Nicolas Tenzer, Tenzer Strategics)
September
- The Promise & Perils of EU Expansion (Carl Bildt, Foreign Affairs)
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The state of the war (Timothy Snyder, Thinking about...)
August
- One step beyond: Why the EU needs a Russia strategy (Marie Dumoulin, ECFR)
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The End of the Russian Idea (Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs)
June
- Ukraine reconstruction is a public good (Timothy Ash)
May
- Ukraine Shuns Russia’s Frenzied Victory Cult (Elena Davlikanova, CEPA)
April
- 04.16 Putin’s Homophobia Is Advancing LGBTQ Rights in Ukraine (Johanna Chisholm, Foreign Policy)
- 04.13 Moldova Still Bears a Heavy Refugee Burden One Year On (Natalia Savelyeva, CEPA)
- 04.07 Putin’s Second Front (Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs)
- 04.06 Russia Is Winning in Georgia (Francis Fukuyama & Nino Evgenidze, Foreign Affairs)
March
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03.30 How to Benchmark Victory in Ukraine (Liana Fix, Foreign Policy)
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03.30 Georgia’s Protesters Won the Battle but Not the War (Natia Seskuria, Foreign Policy)
- 03.29 Ukraine Has Shifted Europe’s East-West Fault Line (Jack Detsch, Amy Mackinnon & Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy)
- 03.29 Russian nuclear intimidation (Keir Giles, Chatham House)
- 03.24 The fetish of Russia’s stability: an intelligent weapon against the West (Maria Domańska, New Eastern Europe)
- 03.23 The EU accession prospects of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia (CEPS)
- 03.19 Putin’s War on Young People (Lucian Kim, Foreign Policy)
- 03.18 Russia Signals It Will Take More Ukrainian Children, a Crime in Progress (Emma Bubola, New York Times)
- 03.16 Russia Is Furious at Georgia’s Protesters (Laura Thornton, Foreign Policy)
- 03.15 Playing the Victim (Timothy Snyder)
- 03.14 Sexual violence as weapon of war (Marta Havryshko, Eurozine)
- 03.10 Staring Down the Black Hole of Russia’s Future (Anastasia Edel, Foreign Policy)
- 03.10 Georgia’s European dream is being carried by the highest spirit of democracy (Tinatin Akhvledani, CEPS)
- 03.07 Rebuilding Ukraine: The Gender Dimension of the Reconstruction Process (FREE Network)
- 03.03 Georgia and the West Fall Out (Emil Avdaliani, CEPA)
- 03.03 Russia’s Forcible Transfers of Ukrainian Civilians: How Civil Society Aids Accountability and Justice (Oleksandra Matviichuk, Natalia Arno & Jasmine D. Cameron, Just Security)
February
- 02.28 Armenias Year of Insecurity (Thomas de Waal, Carnegie Europe)
- 02.23 The Stolen Children: How Russia Attempts to Kidnap Ukraine’s Future (Tetiana Fedosiuk, ICDS)
- 02.22 The Return of the Russia Question (Alexey Kovalev, Foreign Policy)
- 02.19 One Year Into War, Putin Is Crafting the Russia He Craves (Anton Troianovski and
- 02.16 What Putin Broke (Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, CEPA)
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02.11 It’s High Time to Decolonize Western Russia Studies (Artem Shaipov & Yuliia Shaipova, Foreign Policy)
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02.01 How Russians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the War (Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs)
- 02.01 Biden’s Escalation in Ukraine Is About Diplomacy Not Victory (Henry Brands, The Washington Post)
January
- 01.31 Ukraine and the EU at the Time of War: A New Paradigm (Laure Delcour and Kataryna Wolczuk, Zentrum Liberale Moderne)
- 01.25 Inside Washington’s about-face on sending tanks to Ukraine (Politico)
- 01.14 Why the world needs Ukrainian victory (Timothy Snyder)
- 01.10 Future Scenarios for Russia: An Optimistic, but Realistic Outlook (Vladimir Milov, Zentrum Liberale Moderne)
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How to Sustain Support for Ukraine and Overcome Financial and Political Challenges | SITE Development Day 2022 (FREE Network)
- 12.25 Thoughts of a dead man (Mykhailo Mischenko, Razumkov centre)
- 12.22 Five Security Scenarios on Russian War in Ukraine for 2022–2023: Implications and Policy Recommendations to Western Partners (Iuliia Osmolovska & Hennadiy Maksak, GLOBSEC)
- 12.07 Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and policies (edited by Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Ilona Sologoub, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, CEPR)
- 12.01 Baltic Worlds Issue 3-4, 2022: Trapped in Evil Times (CBEES)
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11.01 The bleak economic future of Russia (Maria Perrotta Berlin & Jesper Roine, Stockholm School of Economics)
- 06.14 Russian war crimes: “denazifying” Ukrainians through deportation, torture, detention and filtration camps (Christine Chraibi, Euromaidan Press)
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