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 been written on the subject. In the United States, however, most of the attempts to look at the problem lacked comprehensiveness and were not systematic. They were dealing with one or another aspect of the issue, but not considering the whole picture. Moreover, Ukrainian perspectives on U.S. foreign policy should also be taken into account. Finally, there is no doubt that such an attempt to address the subject helps to fill the niche that exists outside the United States (specifically in Ukraine itself) in terms of understanding what actually was the U.S. stance on Ukraine in those turbulent times, how it evolved, and what factors and actors drove it. […]

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