Alternative Interpretation of the Russian-Ukrainian Gas Crisis
The month-long conflict between Russia and Ukraine over the price of Russian gas has pitted images against policy. In recent years, the image of Russia has been largely negative while…
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From Presidentialism to Parliamentarianism: Strengthening or Weakening Democracy in Ukraine?
Since the late 1980s, crises in Ukrainian politics have been resolved through political compromise. Ukraine’s peaceful transition to independence, the 1994 electoral transition of power (the first in the post-Soviet…
U.S.-Ukraine Relations: The Long Road to Strategic Partnership
The dissolution of the Soviet Union fifteen years ago took many in the United States by surprise. Whether or not the U.S. government ought to have been better prepared for…
Russia’s Energy Policy: Between Security and Transparency
An impressive variety of approaches to energy as a subject of international politics can be divided largely into two clusters, based on concepts of security and transparency. These two concepts…
Ukraine Between a Multivector Foreign Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration: Has It Made Its Choice?
The 2006 return of Viktor Yanukovych to the post of Ukrainian prime minister has again raised questions about the direction of Ukraine’s foreign policy. Will Ukraine continue along the path…
The United States and the Ukrainian Election Political Crisis
Clearly there is a need to analyze in close detail, both in content and essence, the evolution of the U.S. position toward the recent Ukrainian election political crisis. Much has…
Post-Soviet Realpolitik: Russian Policy After the Color Revolutions
Russian policy toward Georgia and Ukraine after the color revolutions presents an example of a realpolitik answer to a normative policy challenge. Here we see one of the widest discursive…
A New President for Ukraine: A Democratic Choice in the CIS?
During the second term of President Leonid Kuchma (1999–2004) Ukraine faced a serious decline in civil rights, rule of law, and fair government. Political scandals around journalist Heorhiy Gongadze’s murder…
Ukraine’s NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) Debates
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is expected to address Ukraine and Georgia’s requests to upgrade their relationship with the alliance at its Bucharest summit in April 2008, even if a…
The International Implications of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution
The Orange Revolution of November/December 2004, set in motion by a ne wly assertive Ukrainian society, opened a new chapter in Ukrainian history and led to a tangible change in…