Ukraine: Dossier of the IDM
We are carefully monitoring the current situation in Ukraine and are deeply concerned about the imminent threat to our friends and partners.
For all of you who would like to better understand Ukraine and the factors that have led to the current tensions, we have prepared a list of relevant publications, interviews, videos and workshops, which you can find below:
Publications:
Nadija Afanasieva and Sebastian Schäffer: "A European (Regional) Future for Ukraine", IDM Policy Paper Series 1/2022
Sebastian Schäffer: What Is Vladimir Putin’s Endgame? There are five different scenarios about how the situation in Ukraine could develop. 30.03.2022, Fair Observer
Ein offener Brief der Osteuropa-ExpertInnen an die Bundesregierung, 18.03. 2022, Der Tagesspiegel
"It is time to officially recognize Ukraine as a candidate state to the European Union", Open Letter, Le Monde, 24.02.2022 (paywall, more information in German here)
Jack Gill and Sebastian Schäffer: "In Ukraine, More Than European Peace Is at Stake", Fair Observer, 28.01. 2022
Open Letter to the German Government, Die Zeit, 14.01. 2022
Sebastian Schäffer and Jack Gill: "Rethinking the Eastern Partnership and EU-Russia relation", IDM Policy Paper Series 3/2021
Sebastian Schäffer: "Is Moscow Turning Off the Gas Tap", Fair Observer, 19.10.2021
Sebastian Schäffer: "EU Concern Over Ukraine Is Not Enough"Fair Observer, 13.04.2021
Sebastian Schäffer and Sergiu Musteata: "10 Jahre Östliche Partnerschaft und Parlamentswahlen in Moldau – Perspektiven und Empfehlungen für den Donauraum", IDM Policy Paper Series 1/2019
Interviews:
Auswirkung des Ukraine Krieges auf CEE, Sebastian Schäffer for ORFIII, 16.03.2022
Ukraine could face Georgia's Scenario in Donbass, Sebastian Schäffer for Eurasia Diary, 09.03.2022
Westbalkan: Europas Nächster Brandherd?, Sebastian Schäffer for PULS 24, 03.03.2022
Interview mir Erhard Busek, OE24 01.03.2022
"Ukraine die Existenz abzusprechen ist vollkommen absurd", Sebastian Schäffer, for PULS24, 24.02.2022
"A full-scale invasion of Russia will lead to a fierce resistance from Ukrainian population", Sebastian Schäffer for Eurasia Diary English, 24.02.2022
"Putin ist ein sehr eiskalt berechnender Staatschef", Sebastian Schäffer for PULS24, 22.02.2022
"Only a unified policy would strengthen permanent security in Europe", Sebastian Schäffer for Eurasia Diary English, 18.02.2022
Ukraine-Russia tensions, Sebastian Schäffer for Phoenix TV Hong Kong, 17.02.2022
"Russia and West cannot reach a long term solution, but they can keep only the status quo", Sebastian Schäffer for Eurasia Diary English, 14.01.2022
"Neither Russia, nor NATO wants war" , Sebastian Schäffer for Eurasia Diary English, 22.12.2021
"A full scale invasion in Ukraine would pose a threat to security in Europe – Moscow continues to destablize Ukraine", Sebastian Schäffer for Eurasia Diary English, 23.11.2021
EU-Russia relations,Sebastian Schäffer for Deutsche Welle Englisch 15.02.2021
"Nordstream 2 : Brauchen wir die Pipeline?" Sebastian Schäffer for phoenix runde 10.09.2020
Workshops/Discussions:
"Russia and Ukraine: What comes next", Panel discussion of the Romanian Center for Russian Studies at the University of Bucharest (amongst others with Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, Andreas Umland and Sebastian Schäffer), 10.02.2022
"EU and ist Neighbors to the East: Prospects for future relations", Panel discussion with Sebastian Schäffer organised by the International Institute for Peace, 15.11.2021
THIRTY YEARS ON: Is There Still a Post-Soviet Space? conference organised together with the International Institute for Peace, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for Multilateral Dialogue, and the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (amongst others with Daniela Apaydin, Jack Gill and Sebastian Schäffer), 15.-16.11.2021
"Ukraine in East-Central Europe: Kyiv’s Bilateral Relations and Prospects of Multilateralism in the Region", International hybrid conference organised together with the Paneuropa Union and the Ukrainian Institute for the Future (amongst others with Andreas Umland and Sebastian Schäffer), 18.09.2020
Sebastian Schäffer & Andras Umland: IDMonSite about the political situation in Ukraine, June 2020
Sebastian Schäffer & Andreas Wenninger: IDMonSite, April 2020
"Conflict, Identity, Statehood : Perspectives for the EU and its Eastern Neighbourhood", (Summer School on future scenario development, amongst others with Ulrich Schneckener and Sebastian Schäffer), Chernivtsi September 2019
"Fragile Statehood, Minorities and Armed Conflicts – Future Scenarios for Moldova and Ukraine between the Conflicting Priorities of EU-Russia Relations", (Summer School on future scenario development, amongst others with Ulrich Schneckener and Sebastian Schäffer), Odesa September 2017
"Minorities, frozen conflicts and the Eastern Partnership in Moldova and Ukraine", (Summer School on future scenario development, amongst others with Sebastian Schäffer), Chisinau July 2016
Videos/Short Insights:
IDMonSite: Ukraine with Anatoliy Kruglashov, 6.04.2022
Healing the Economy: The European Silk Road – cooperation and recovery in CEE(Podcast with Mario Holzner and Sebastian Schäffer, 12.01.2022)
Sebastian Schäffer: Short insights 14: USA and Germany reach agreement on Nord Stream 2, 2.08.2021
Sebastian Schäffer: "Aggression between Kyiv and Moscow and reaction from the US and the EU", 14.04.2021
Kostyantyn Polishchuk: Videostatement zum Ergebnis der Parlamentswahl in der Ukraine, 1.08.2019
Further activities (with limited access & information):
2019
Events:
Training mit Simulation europäischer Entscheidungsfindungsprozesse für ukrainische Diplomaten
Was vom Euromaidan übrig blieb
2018
Events:
2017
Events:
Ukraine Reforms: Strategy, Achievements, Mistakes
Lemberg/Lviv-Studienreise für Journalist/-innen
2016
Events:
Ukraine's Reforms: Glass Half Full?
25 years of Development in the post-Soviet Space: Civil Society and Participatory Democracy
2014
Event:
Panel Discussion “Role of the Civil Society in the Process of Democratization”
2013
Event:
Die Östliche Partnerschaft nach dem Vilnius-Gipfel: Perspektiven und Konsequenzen
Further Publications:
Der Donauraum - 25 Years of Development in the Post-Soviet Space: Civil Society and Participatory Democracy
Info Europa - Medienfreiheit im Donauraum (2015)