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Foreign Affairs committee  There's no doubt that the system has moved in an authoritarian direction and that there's a heavy repression of forces that try to oppose the structure of power. That does not necessarily lead, though, to conclusions about how we deal with that country in a foreign policy sphere.

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  There are differences within the European Union and within NATO in regard to how hard a line one should take with Russia, how much it should be a military focus, and how much a diplomatic focus. I think there's a unity around the security guarantee. No one knows what would actual

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  I understand that.

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  The soft kind of intrusion is very hard to respond to because you can't respond to it very easily militarily. That's exactly the problem, and that's why the tool of NATO, while it's an important one in terms of the security commitment, is not the only tool needed. That's why, ult

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a really large question. Just on the terminology, yes, I would use the term “central Europe” to refer to Poland normally. I've picked up your committee's language here with “eastern Europe”, which I would usually use for Belarus, Ukraine, and possibly Russia, but I don't

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, there is a potential threat. It's kind of ironic because the talk maybe a decade ago was that the European public was passive and not interested in the European Union. There was talk of a kind of permissive consensus, that they just went along with what the elite said. Now

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  I think it's important to keep a positive discourse—we're doing pretty well in this regard—and to not feed into the negative discursive space that's emerged, to actively combat the depiction of certain situations in a way that supports the populist narrative or in many cases the

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  These are just some of the challenges that the European Union faces in terms of the rise of populism. Of course, it has been triggered by a variety of factors, including the 2008 economic crisis and the aftermath of that which, of course, Europe more or less imported from North A

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  The energy interdependence—I would call it—between the European Union and Russia has, on balance, been a stabilizing factor. The underlying logic of the European Union in its relationship with Russia has been pretty well the same as the underlying logic of the European integratio

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  This is the really hard nut to crack, the security issue. In some way it's probably bold to even bring it up as a possibility because I think you have to work around the edges with Russia to try to rebuild trust without necessarily dealing with that really difficult problem. The

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't have any particular thought about that issue. It's not something I really looked into, so rather than make a comment based on an impression I won't answer that question.

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  I wouldn't say it's an imperialist strategy in that sense. I think Russia wishes to have a sphere of influence, a sphere around it where it has a certain level of significant influence. That's not unique to Russia. Historically in other large countries, this has been a fairly com

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  We have an alliance with the Baltic states, and with Poland. I think we should definitely support that alliance and the security guarantees that are provided, and that's being done. I would totally support that position. I think it's unlikely that there would be an overt attack

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  I think that depiction of Russia is a bit too extreme. I wouldn't characterize it quite that way. There is, of course, a lot of corruption and there is a certain element of criminality in certain aspects of Russian society, but to describe the whole system in that manner would be

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. I think the bargaining chip kind of discourse can be quite dangerous. There definitely can be the risk—and given the uncertainty in Washington right now, I think one has to consider this even more seriously—of some kind of what I call a “great power” bargain being struck bet

February 14th, 2017Committee meeting

Prof. Joan DeBardeleben