Geopoliticus May 8, 2019 Volodymyr Zelensky: Ukraine’s Servant of the People? In the first scene of Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky’s hit sitcom Servant of the People, three faceless oligarchs stand... Read more »
E-Notes March 26, 2019 Ukraine’s Presidential Election and the Future of its Foreign Policy As Ukrainians prepare to elect a president on March 31, the West and the East wait to see which... Read more »
E-Notes March 8, 2019 Russia’s Tragic Great Power Politics Many Western scholars studying Russia and policymakers dealing with Russia have long found it an exhausting and bewildering endeavor.... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 25, 2019 Are the Russians Coming?: Russia’s Military Buildup Near Ukraine Long before the Kerch Strait incident in October 2018, Russia had already begun to strengthen the forces in its... Read more »
E-Notes January 28, 2019 Yulia Tymoshenko: Ukraine’s Candidate of Uncertainty As Ukraine’s March 2019 presidential election nears, the Kremlin has not masked its interest in the outcome. Indeed, in... Read more »
Black Sea Strategy Papers December 11, 2018 China’s Black Sea Ambitions The People’s Republic of China is actively engaging Black Sea littoral states through various initiatives to open new markets... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 4, 2018 Maritime Scuffle: Russia and Ukraine in the Sea of Azov On November 25, Russian border service patrol boats opened fire on two Ukrainian navy gunboats and rammed a Ukrainian... Read more »
Russia Political Economy Project September 19, 2018 Bond of War: Russian Geo-Economics in Ukraine’s Sovereign Debt Restructuring Russia and Ukraine have spent the last four years locked in a conflict with many fronts, from the battlefields... Read more »
E-Notes August 17, 2018 The Ukrainian Military: From Degradation to Renewal In August 2015, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense officially launched a comprehensive effort to overhaul the country’s armed forces... Read more »
FPRI Primers (Essays) July 12, 2018 NATO: An FPRI Primer Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution grants the President the power to negotiate alliances with the “Advice... Read more »