Interpreting the Color Revolutions and Prospects for Post-Soviet Democratization: Breaking the Cycles

The Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Rose Revolution in Georgia, and the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan have been widely interpreted as democratic breakthroughs. This largely misses the most important point.…

Is Democracy Irreversible in Ukraine? Political Reconfiguration on the Eve of the March 2006 Elections

The Orange Revolution in November-December 2004 against falsifications of the presidential election was a tremendous step forward in the democratization of Ukraine. Since the election, however, democratically elected President Viktor…

Rejoining Europe?: The Socializing Power of European Institutions

Recent months have witnessed a heated debate between the United States and its European allies over basic foreign policy strategies. Played out largely in discussions over the war on terror, headline stories…

Ukraine at the Crossroads: Velvet Revolution or Belarusification

The present Ukrainian electoral system is based on a mixed majoritarian/proportional system, with 225 of the Rada’s deputies elected in single-mandate districts (SMD) and 225 elected by party lists. In the March…

The Next President of Ukraine: Predicting the Unpredictable

It is obvious that the epoch of Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine is coming to its end. When and how this epoch will end and what, let alone who, will follow Kuchma…

The Paradoxes of Kuchma’s Russian Policy

Since 1991, Kyiv has followed what has been termed a multi-vector approach in its foreign policy by trying to play a delicate balancing act between the United States and the European Union,…

Political Reform or a Game of Survival for President Kuchma?

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma is constitutionally prohibited from running for a third term. Viktor Yushchenko, the leader of the main opposition bloc Our Ukraine, is, according to opinion polls, the best placed…

U.S. – Ukraine Relations in a Changing Security Environment

The events of September 11, 2001, have greatly changed the security environment and have set a distinct new security agenda for the United States. Although one could argue that these…

International Assistance and Human Rights in Post-Soviet Ukraine

A decade into its independent, post-Soviet existence, words or phrases like laggard, diminished expectations or basket case typically capture the headline story about Ukraine. In the humanrights policy area, the…

Ukraine on the Eve of Parliamentary Elections: Internal trends and Security Implications

Co-author: Rostyslav Pavlenko Ukraine’s upcoming parliamentary elections in March 2002 will determine not only the new composition of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada). They will also define the correlation of…

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