EAP Think Bridge - № 2017-05 - The security situation in Ukraine: lessons for the Eastern partnership neighborhood and wider Europe
EAP Think Bridge - № 2017-05 - The security situation in Ukraine: lessons for the Eastern partnership neighborhood and wider Europe

Author(s): Richard Giragosian, Sergiy Gerasymchuk, Vugar Bayramov, Arseniy Sivitsky, Lasha Tughushi, Natalia Stercul
Subject(s): Regional Geography, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Present Times (2010 - today), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: PIC Promotion of the Intercultural Cooperation
Summary/Abstract: Security remains to be the key for all of the Eastern Partnership countries, without exception. Frozen, simmering and hot conflicts are the distinctive feature of the region as a whole. If, after the Russian intervention in Georgia in 2008, the West failed to learn the necessary lessons, today such lessons are again taught by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Where is the place of the region in Moscow’s geopolitical integration projects? What instruments of a hybrid intervention does the Kremlin use in attacks, not only against Ukraine? Where will Rus¬sia’s expansionist efforts lead to? Sergiy Gerasymchuk is looking for the answers to these and other security issues. In April, with the risk of resuming the clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh, se¬curity issues become dominant for Armenia and Azerbaijan, where Russia sells military equipment to both sides of the conflict, while providing them with a platform for the diplomatic negotiations. The main question in the expert environment of Belarus was: Do the concessions in the security sphere appear as a price of the economic agreements with Russia? At the same time Georgia’s agenda in April was dominated by the debate over the changes to the Constitution. The main stumbling block is the new electoral system. The change in the parliamentary electoral system was the top issue of the disputes yet with no results in Moldova as well. These and other most important events of April in the Eastern Partner¬ship countries are discussed in the traditional review of the month. //// CONTENT: ARMENIA: SHARING SPOILS OF POWER // AZERBAIJAN: ECONOMY DECLINE AND RUSSIAN MILITARY SUPPORT // BELARUS: BALANCING FOREIGN POLICY AND REVIVING THE ECONOMY // GEORGIA: FIGHTING FOR THE NEW CONSTITUTION // MOLDOVA: INTERNAL POLITICAL DEBATES, AMBIVALENT ECONOMIC DECISIONS AND AMBIGUOUS FOREIGN POLICY AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF NATURAL DISASTERS // UKRAINE: POLITICAL SPRING BREAK, ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND WAITING FOR // ANALYTICA: THE SECURITY SITUATION IN UKRAINE: LESSONS FOR THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD AND WIDER EUROPE

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