{"id":12006,"date":"2015-03-23T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/conference-report-ukraine-and-its-neighbourhood-how-to-deal-with-aggressive-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:11:20","slug":"conference-report-ukraine-and-its-neighbourhood-how-to-deal-with-aggressive-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/conference-report-ukraine-and-its-neighbourhood-how-to-deal-with-aggressive-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Report: &quot;Ukraine and its Neighbourhood &#8211; How to Deal with Aggressive Russia&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">\n<ul class='list_homepage'>\n<li><a href='\/fr\/download\/downloads.php\/?icode=445' target='_blank' title=\"click to download (pdf)\"><br \/>\nConference Report: &quot;Ukraine and its Neighbourhood &#8211; How to Deal with Aggressive Russia&quot;<\/a>, by Caterina Becker, Heidi Reisinger, Polina Sinovets and Brooke Smith Windsor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">For quite some time Russia has been considered a \u201cdifficult partner\u201d for NATO, but 2014 was a particularly defining year.  NATO has to adjust itself to this new situation.  After the unlawful annexation of Crimea &#8211; the boldest land grab by a European power since World War II \u2013 and Moscow\u2019s covert invasion of Eastern Ukraine, Russia has become an increasingly isolated and unpredictable actor. The Kremlin\u2019s need for \u201cbuffer states\u201d turns more and more into a threat, especially to Russia\u2019s neighborhood \u2013 or its \u201csphere of influence\u201d as Moscow likes to see it. Russia\u2019s only new allies seem to be the breakaway Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, with whom Moscow signed a wide-ranging alliance this week.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">The latest NDC Conference Report, based on the findings from a workshop our division hosted in Rome in February 2015, asks whether Russia really is a military threat, how this is perceived in its neighborhood, and why it is so challenging for the Alliance to support a partner at war. I hope you find it stimulating reading. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">\n<p>Dr Jeffrey Larsen, Division Head Research<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\"><span class='np'><a href='\/fr\/research\/publications.php\/?icode=6' target='_blank'>More Research Division Publications&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>NDC Public Affairs Office<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference Report: &quot;Ukraine and its Neighbourhood &#8211; How to Deal with Aggressive Russia&quot;, by Caterina Becker, Heidi Reisinger,<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"post_badge":[],"class_list":["post-12006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"NDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/author\/admin_3rwqf6tj\/"},"modified_by":null,"author_meta":{"display_name":"NDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/author\/admin_3rwqf6tj\/"},"featured_img":null,"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":"","morenews-featured":"","morenews-large":"","morenews-medium":""},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":0,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"relative_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 11 ans il y a","modified":"Mis \u00e0 jour 6 mois il y a"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le mars 23, 2015","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le janvier 15, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le mars 23, 2015 12:10","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le janvier 15, 2026 09:11"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12006"},{"taxonomy":"post_badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_badge?post=12006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}