{"id":10844,"date":"2014-10-20T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.kse.ua\/news\/2014-10-20-handling-frozen-conflicts-the-economic-angle-the-article-by-tom-coupe-and-eric-livny\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:53:18","slug":"2014-10-20-handling-frozen-conflicts-the-economic-angle-the-article-by-tom-coupe-and-eric-livny","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/kse.ua\/en\/news\/2014-10-20-handling-frozen-conflicts-the-economic-angle-the-article-by-tom-coupe-and-eric-livny\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Handling Frozen Conflicts: the Economic Angle&#8221; \u2013 the article by Tom Coupe and Eric Livny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--------------------------------------- Old id: 500 ------------------------------------- --><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kse.org.ua\/en\/about\/KSE-team\/faculty\/Tom-Coupe\/\">Tom Coupe<\/a>, Associate Professor, Senior Economist at KSE and Eric Livny, ISET Director: &#8220;Handling Frozen Conflicts: the Economic Angle&#8221; for ISET Economist blog, Voxukraine, KyivPost and Georgia Today.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It now seems more and more likely that Eastern Donbass (the area currently controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People\u2019s Republics) will become a frozen conflict zone, a territory in which the Ukrainian government will have little power to enforce its laws and where slowly a parallel governance system, an unrecognized \u2018quasi-state\u2019, will emerge. In the absence of a viable military alternative, one option likely to be considered by Ukraine and its Western allies is to exercise \u2018strategic patience\u2019.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To read the article please follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/voxukraine.org\/2014\/10\/18\/handling-frozen-conflicts-the-economic-angle\/\">link<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Coupe, Associate Professor, Senior Economist at KSE and Eric Livny, ISET Director: &#8220;Handling Frozen Conflicts: the Economic Angle&#8221; for ISET Economist blog, Voxukraine, KyivPost and Georgia Today. It now seems more and more likely that Eastern Donbass (the area currently controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People\u2019s Republics) will become a frozen conflict\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"department":[],"news_type":[15],"project":[],"region":[],"unit":[38],"class_list":["post-10844","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_type-news","unit-kse"],"acf":{"primary_unit":null,"news_intro":"","header_cta_mode":"event","header_event_cta_text":"\u0414\u043e \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0456\u0457","header_event_cta_url":"","header_research_cta_text":"\u0427\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0438 \u0432\u0441\u0435 \u0434\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0456\u0434\u0436\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044f","header_research_pdf":null,"author_person":"","author_name":"","related_news":null,"related_events":[],"related_people":[],"related_links":null,"external_link":"","external_link_label":"","is_featured":false,"is_featured_archive":false,"quote_text":"","quote_author":"","quote_author_role":"","program_title":"\u0424\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0442 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0438","program_items":null,"reference_title":"\u0414\u043e\u0432\u0456\u0434\u043a\u0430","reference_content":"","source_system":"migration","source_id":"13793","content_owner":"kse","last_reviewed":null,"visibility":"public","platform_id":"","platform_version":"","platform_managed":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Handling Frozen Conflicts: the Economic Angle&quot; \u2013 the article by Tom Coupe and Eric Livny - KSE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kse.ua\/en\/news\/2014-10-20-handling-frozen-conflicts-the-economic-angle-the-article-by-tom-coupe-and-eric-livny\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Handling Frozen Conflicts: the Economic Angle&quot; \u2013 the article by Tom Coupe and Eric Livny\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tom Coupe, Associate Professor, Senior Economist at KSE and Eric Livny, ISET Director: &quot;Handling Frozen Conflicts: the Economic Angle&quot; for ISET Economist blog, Voxukraine, KyivPost and Georgia Today. 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