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Communist and Post-Communist Studies
Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2012) 45 (3-4): 457–459.
Published: 18 August 2012
... reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Ukraine Foreign policy External Sources of foreign policy Domestic Sources of foreign policy In 2000, former US ambassador to Ru Books under the title The Nowhere Nation d pro he no timis e roa d m nalyti y ha aining ern E the...
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All the authors in this collection of essays on Ukrainian politics stress the lack of improvement in the political situation in recent years. The authors identify a range of reasons including pre-Soviet history, the Soviet legacy, national identity, and political gridlock. While the authors disagree slightly on the extent to which change is impossible or merely difficulty, none is hopeful. The challenge for scholars is to avoid moving from objective analysis to assigning political blame. Some authors identify specific political actors on whom they fix blame, while others focus on less personal structural factors. The relative weight of structure-based and agent-based explanations is important in assessing the prospects for change in the future, and the possible paths to it.
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Journal:
Communist and Post-Communist Studies
Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2012) 45 (3-4): 447–456.
Published: 11 August 2012
... Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Ukraine Foreign policy External sources of foreign policy Domestic sources of foreign policy Ukraine little. This paper reviews the first 20 years of Ukrainian foreign policy and accounts for the ed in in th ce...
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In the early years of independence, Ukraine’s crucial accomplishment was the establishment a degree of sovereignty and independence that few thought possible. Since that time, Ukrainian foreign policy has largely stagnated. Despite attempts of various internal leaders to adopt decisive policies, and despite significant external pressure, Ukraine has done very little. This paper reviews the first 20 years of Ukrainian foreign policy and accounts for the inertia that has developed. Ukraine’s foreign policy passivity results from three uneasy balances: an external balance between the pulls of Russia and the West; an internal balance between Ukraine’s regions, and an internal balance between forces of democracy and authoritarianism. These balances mean that while few are happy with Ukraine’s policy, no one has been able to decisively change it. While Ukraine’s domestic regional division is unlikely to change, change in the balance between domestic political forces or that between international forces could reduce the inertia in Ukrainian foreign politics, most likely leading to a drift toward Russia.