Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

Russia/Turkey/Central Asia – Moscow Promoting Canal System Linking Turkey and Central Asia Via Russian Territory (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Moscow Promoting Canal System Linking Turkey and Central Asia Via Russian Territory - Jamestown
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Russia/Belarus – The Kremlin’s Quandary With Supporting an Isolated Belarus (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev The Kremlin’s Quandary With Supporting an Isolated Belarus - Jamestown
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Russia/TechInnovation/Military Capabilities/Syria – Russia’s Entry to Sixth-Generation Warfare: the ‘Non-Contact’ Experiment in Syria (The Jamestown Foundation)

Roger McDermott Russia’s adoption of high-technology assets aims to increase a broad spectrum of military capabilities, but it does not seek to emulate its foreign...
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Russia/West – West Needs to Focus on What Russia Will Be Like After Putin, New Book Says (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Ever more people in both Russia and the West are recognizing that Vladimir Putin will not be in power forever. https://jamestown.org/program/west-needs-to-focus-on-what-russia-will-be-like-after-putin-new-book-says/
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Ukraine/West – Four Setbacks to Western Credibility in Ukraine (Part One) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor Within the last three weeks, a series of decisions by leading Western powers seem to indicate a downgrading of Ukraine on the scale...
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Belarus – Lukashenka Miscalculates International Response to Ryanair Intercept (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer A couple of decades ago, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka was branded in Brussels as “Europe’s last dictator.” https://jamestown.org/program/lukashenka-miscalculates-international-response-to-ryanair-intercept/
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Ukraine – Ukraine’s New Naval Doctrine: A Revision of the Mosquito Fleet Strategy or Bureaucratic Inconsistency? (The Jamestown Foundation)

Ihor Kabanenko For Ukraine, which lost more than 70 percent of its naval assets after Russia’s forcible annexation of Crimea, the ability to effectively deter...
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Russia/Turkey – Leader-Oriented Relations Between Russia and Turkey in Times of Pandemic (The Jamestown Foundation)

Hasan Selim Özertem At the end of April, Minister Fahrettin Koca announced that the Ministry of Health had granted emergency use authorization in Turkey to...
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China – What I Learned From the PLA’s Latest Strategy Textbook (The Jamestown Foundation)

Joel Wuthnow In August 2020, China’s National Defense University (NDU) released a revised version of its Science of Military Strategy (战略学, zhanlüe xue) (SMS), a core textbook for...
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Armenia/Azerbaijan – Fate of Zangezur Corridor Unclear Amidst Precarious Tensions Between Armenia and Azerbaijan (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vasif Huseynov On May 17, Armenia’s caretaker prime minister, Nikol Pashinian, convened a Security Council meeting to discuss the latest tense developments on the Armenian-Azerbaijani...
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Belarus – Belarus Stages What It Sees as Major Security Operations (The Jamestown Foundation)

Grigory Ioffe On Sunday, May 23, Belarus made headlines around the world for diverting a commercial flight. Ryanair’s Boeing 737-8AS, in transit over Belarus from...
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USA/Russia – The Arctic Prelude to a ‘Stabilization’ Summit (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev The meeting between US State Secretary Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Reykjavik, Iceland, last week (May 19), was...
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Maldives – Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed Narrowly Avoids Assassination: A Political Conspiracy or Islamic State Plot? (The Jamestown Foundation)

Animesh Roul On May 6, Maldives’ Speaker of Parliament and former President Mohamed Nasheed was seriously injured in an assassination attempt outside his home in...
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Ethiopia/Tigray Region – Tigray Defense Forces Resist Ethiopian Army Offensive as Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethnic Militias Enter the Fray (The Jamestown Foundation)

Michael Horton After nearly seven months of fighting, the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region shows no sign of abating. https://jamestown.org/program/tigray-defense-forces-resist-ethiopian-army-offensive-as-sudan-eritrea-and-ethnic-militias-enter-the-fray/
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Ukraine – Zelenskyy Ready to Frame Poroshenko on Criminal Charges (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor On May 20, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a highly personalized form, threatened to send his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, to prison. https://jamestown.org/program/zelenskyy-ready-to-frame-poroshenko-on-criminal-charges/  
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Russia/Ukraine – DPR and LPR Increasingly at Odds, Complicating Moscow’s Approach to Ukraine (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Most commentators in Russia, Ukraine and the West tend to treat the Moscow-backed breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic (DPR, LPR),...
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