Proposition: On balance, the Ukrainian Revolution has achieved its goals
YR (in favour): Nearly four years after the start...
Tags: Academy for National Security, Communist Party, corruption, Crimea, democratization, Euromaidan protests, Global Brief, Kiev, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine's geopolitical reality, Ukrainian Institute for the Future, Ukrainian revolution, Viktor Yanukovych
Proposition: A bona fide Arctic Union should be created
ZP (in favour): At this important crossroads in global geopolitics,...
Tags: Arctic, Arctic competition, Arctic conflict, Arctic Council, Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy, Arctic union, Crimea, Donbass, Global Brief, Liudmila Filippova, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Zachary Paikin
Why no new world order has been built since the end of the Cold War
Twenty-five years ago, on March 17th, 1991, the first...
Tags: Cold War, Crimea, Fyodor Lukyanov, Global Brief, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow, NATO, Perestroika, Russia, Russia world concept, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian foreign policy, Russian society, Russian strategy, Soviet Union, Syria, Syria intervention, Vladimir Putin
The Ukrainian revolution was caused by gross policy incompetence at a time when Kiev needed heroic leadership. Ukraine’s...
Tags: corruption, Crimea, European Union, Global Brief, good governance, governance incompetence, Irvin Studin, Kremlin, Maidan protests, Mikhail Grushevsky, Moscow, post-Soviet statehood, Putin, Russian Federation, Russian foreign policy, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian revolution, Viktor Yanukovych, Yushchenko
