BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,087, July 4, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Many are still wondering whether Vladimir Putin’s massive troop deployment in conflict zones in the Donbas and the Crimean Peninsula in the spring of 2021 was preparation for eventual …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,005, April 23, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Having used brutal force to crush nationwide demonstrations in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin has now embarked on a new venture. By mobilizing a …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,918, February 5, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Unlike his predecessor Donald Trump, President Joe Biden is taking an active interest in Belarus, a small country on the periphery of Russia, and suggesting a more hawkish policy …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,826, November 20, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: After four years of supporting Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to curry favor with Joe Biden days before the US presidential election. He did this despite Biden’s …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,775, October 13, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Peaceful revolution has finally come to the last dictatorship on Russia’s Eastern European periphery. President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has become an illegitimate leader due to a rigged election. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,371, December 13, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The revolution that took place in the Czech Republic thirty years ago was not just the work of Vaclav Havel and his Charter 77 followers. The spark was a …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,242, August 1, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: President Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela is effectively a mafia state, run by a military leadership that is heavily involved in the drug trade and security forces that aid the criminal …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,174, May 16, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Monroe Doctrine, first articulated in 1823 by President James Monroe, was designed to protect the Americas from foreign threat and intervention. The Doctrine has a renewed relevance …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,147, April 21, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, as reported by Moscow Times, states that Russia is considering deploying strategic bombers full-time in Venezuela. The outlet also reports that an agreement …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,115, March 18, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: If Nicolás Maduro is removed from office in Venezuela, Putin might act as he did when a popular revolution overthrew Yanukovych in Ukraine in 2014. At that time, he …
