As a result, the United States faces two unattractive possibilities: If, as seems probable, conflict eventually erupts between Russia and Ukraine, the U.S. will have to choose between failing to live up to its guarantees or becoming embroiled in the fighting.
Mearsheimer succinctly and thoughtfully challenges the assumptions underpinning the present U.S. policy toward Ukraine and offers an alternative approach with which the Center strongly agrees.
Its true shareholders are unknown, and Carlos Pascual, then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, remarked at a conference in Kiev that he feared it was connected to organized crime.
Common sense suggests that, toward this end, the U.S. should encourage Ukraine to retain the nuclear arms it inherited from the former Soviet Union -- not insist that Kiev surrender them to Moscow.
Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, notes that Ukraine does have a potential separatist issue in Crimea, its narrowly connected peninsula in the Black Sea, but says that problem has been largely diffused by giving the region near autonomy.
Moscow, therefore, could treat this as an opportunity for leverage on other issues, whether it be missile defense as we discussed last week, NATO membership talks for Ukraine and Georgia, U.S.-Russia trade issues, or a new nuclear arms limitation treaty.
Local media have been reporting that Carlos Pascual, a Cuban-American expert on Europe and a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, is Obama's choice, but the fact that he wrote a report for the Brookings Institute on Iraq and the importance of reconstructing a failed state wasn't well received in political and government circles.
The cyber-theft ring in which dozens of arrests were made in the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands and Ukraine, according to court documents and federal officials allegedly used the tactic, among others.
As the Center was denied an opportunity to present this position to Senator Biden's subcommittee at today's hearing, the powerful arguments in favor of a sea-change in U.S. policy toward a nuclear Ukraine may not be given due consideration.
Fourth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus also profited from an injury as U.S. Open quarterfinalist Kateryna Bondarenko of the Ukraine conceded while 4-1 down in the first set.
Federer's charge to wrestle the Shanghai crown from Andy Murray looks set to be a lot tougher, as the U.S. open champion dismissed the challenge of Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-2 6-2.
While President Clinton apparently blithely provided such guarantees to Belarus when it recently gave up former Soviet nuclear arms on its territory, he must be wary of assuming new, and arguably more callable, guarantees to states like Ukraine without taking the minimum steps necessary to preserve the U.S. nuclear deterrent.
There are currently 130 projects under way with 125 U.S. companies involving former weapons scientists from Russia as well as Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Uzbekistan.
In World Group playoffs, Japan led Belgium 2-0 while the U.S. and Australia held the same advantage in their respective matches against Ukraine and Germany.
Simone was born in Kharkov, Ukraine (then the Soviet Union) to Russian parents, but came to the U.S. when she was one.
Meanwhile, Serena Williams displayed her best form in roughly 18 months in winning at Charleston on green clay earlier this month, then led the U.S. Fed Cup team to a 5-0 sweep on red clay in Ukraine this past weekend, earning the team a berth in the World Group next year.
Michael Bergen and Michael Aki, a gay American couple who got married in 2004 and work as graphic designers in Massachusetts, decided to try surrogacy in India after they waited unsucessfully for three years to adopt a child in the U.S. To hire a surrogate, "we looked at Panama and the Ukraine, " recalls 39-year-old Mr. Bergen.
The U.S. is the world's top wheat exporter, but it faces growing competition from Ukraine, Russia and Australia.
Technically recoverable shale gas potential in Australia was put by the EIA at 390 trillion cubic feet of gas, about 45% of the 862tcf estimated for the U.S., but roughly double the estimate for France and Poland and 9-times the estimate for Ukraine which recently attracted an investment by Royal Dutch Shell.
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