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The Institute of World Policy with the support of the Government of Norway and the NATO Liaison Office in Ukraine published the policy brief according based on the results of the third session of the Strategic Discussion Club.The third Strategic Discussion Club, held on the 23rd of April, was devoted to the topic of energy security of Ukraine. The key questions discussed during the session were the relations of Kyiv and Moscow in the context of gas supply and transfer, the independence of Ukrainian GTS as the core aspect of the security of the state, new resources of energy production and the importance of unconventional gas resources.

The research emphasizes that, in spite of the strong dependence of Ukraine on the Russian energy resources, Ukraine still has leverage (e.g. Ukrainian GTS) to establish equitable relations. At the same time, by constructing the bypass headways to the Europe, Russia tries to minimize the importance of these leverages.

It is stressed in the analysis that Ukraine has to maintain control over the GTS and only then it can ensure its energy security. The surrender of the Ukrainian GTS may cause the halt of the reverse gas import and the building of the LNG-terminal as well as it will slow down the process of shale gas extraction.

The policy brief concludes that Ukraine has to maintain control of over the GTS and establish transparent and professional management in the energy sector that will enhance the level of state security in general.

The full version of the policy brief is under the following this link.

The Institute of World Policy and the NATO and the Liaison Office in Ukraine with the support of the Government of Norway has published the policy-brief on the results of the second meeting of the Strategic Discussion Club.At the end of February, 2013 the Institute of World Policy held the 2nd meeting of SDC. During the event the experts focused on the following questions: what advantages in the sphere of defence does the European integration provides to Ukraine? what results can we expect from the Ukraine-EU summit? can EU become a new “umbrella of defence” for Ukraine?

IWP analysed the results of the expert discussion and presented the policy-brief at the 3rd meeting of SDC.
The process of Europeanization is scrutinized as a factor of changes in Ukraine, particularly in the defence sector, in the research paper. The Europeanization of the defence sector is closely related to the possibility to develop strong institutions, the ability to ensure the transparency of decision making, and the forecast and foreign policy sequence.

It is underlined that Ukraine should not focus on the perspective of membership as the main motivation of Europeanization; Europeanization has to be implemented without regard for integration perspectives.

The full version of the policy brief is under the following this link