Europe & Eurasia

A Ten-Point Plan for Ukraine

By Rajan Menon

President Obama’s inbox is doubtless packed with proposals for stopping the standoff between Ukraine and Russia.

Europe Needs a Reset on Defense

By Editors of the Financial Times

The nations of the EU must stop their collective decline as a military power.

Russia: It is Extremely Dangerous to Bring the ‘NATO Factor’ to the Crisis in Ukraine

By Russian Foreign Ministry

Question: How has Moscow perceived NATO’s decision to suspend cooperation with Russia because of the situation in Ukraine, which was announced on the 5 March?

Ukraine’s Crisis Government Seeks a Strategy Against Russia

By James Rupert

Despite Crimea Invasion, Kyiv’s Mood Is Moderate, Pragmatic, Non-Violent Ukraine’s interim government took office twelve days ago to face a Russian invasion, a national bankruptcy, and deep regional and political divides. As its top officials prepared to visit Washington this week to seek support, an Atlantic Council delegation first went to Kyiv to meet them, […]

Failure to Support Ukrainian Sovereignty will Tempt Putin to Continue Aggression

By Jon Kyl & Joseph Lieberman, Real Clear World

Russia’s actions in Ukraine also trouble Americans because of their implications for NATO allies and the United States’ common defense responsibilities.

Lost in Space

By Bharath Gopalaswamy

The Crimean Crisis highlights America’s Dangerous Dependence on Russian Space Technology. The Crimea crisis, the sharpest conflict in decades between the United States and Russia, is raising concerns about the future of the U.S. space program. The cooperation in space that Washington and Moscow fostered in the quarter-century since the Cold War ended is now […]

Crisis in Ukraine: Military Options and Planning

While much of the discussion in the West on responding to the crisis in Ukraine has been about targeted sanctions against Russian oligarchs and the oil industry, the latest developments in Crimea have turned the situation in a more militaristic direction. Recently, Russian troops seized a military hospital in Simferopol along with a missile base […]

Russia is Playing a Weak Hand Very Strongly

A regular contributor to CNN.com, Ambassador-in-Residence Michael Oren writes that in both Syria and Iran, Russia has played its relatively weak strategic hand exceedingly well and is threatening to outmaneuver the United States in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the United States has paused its effots to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace in order to generate pressure on […]