Second, research on Ukraine’s foreign policy in the first post-Soviet decade (D’Anieriġ995, 1997 Laba 1995 Larrabee 1996 Bukkvoll 1997 Garnett 1997 Moroney et al. Within the confines of the European continent, we suggest that the annexation of Crimea and the war in Easternĭonbas may be seen as marking the end of the post-Cold War period in Europe. Of rising powers and their much more active (re-)engagement in world affairs’ (Smith 2013, p. Order by recognition of the US’s power limitations, and the post-post-post-Cold War order by ‘the emergence Was defined by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the predominance of the US, the post-post-Cold War University of Birmingham to discuss drafts of the essays in this collection in March 2015.ġMichael Smith has referred to the ‘post-post-post Cold War’ period in his view, the post-Cold War order Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) and the University of Birmingham for a workshop held at the The guest co-editors gratefully acknowledge the financial contribution provided by the Centre for East European Kuzio 1998 Wanner 1998 Wolczuk 2000) as well as the ethnic, linguistic and regional Identity and language issues (Kuzio & Wilson 1994 Arel 1996 Wilson 1996 Janmaat 1999 Apartįrom domestic politics, scholarly research focused on two aspects. Like most newly independent states which emergedįrom the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine was largely terra incognita in the early 1990s. Russia and Russia’s relations with the EU. To contextualise developments, both in Ukraine’s domestic politics and in its relations with Scholars specialising in Russia and Eastern Europe.Īmidst fast-changing events we need to consider the longer-term perspective in order The profound domesticĪnd international implications of these ongoing developments present a major challenge to Is unclear what kind of order will emerge from the current tensions. Stage we can say with some certainty that the post-post-Cold War Europe1 is upon us but it Implications for the future of European security-Russia’s own relations with Europe. These events have highlightedĪ fundamental shift, both in Ukraine’s relationship with Russia and-with unpredictable Likely to be felt in Europe and beyond for some time to come. The subsequent change of government in Kyiv triggered a sequence of events-the territorialĪnnexation of Crimea by Russia and the war in the Donbas-the reverberations of which are However, Yanukovych’s ignominious flight from Ukraine and Remembering that the Euromaidan was essentially a domestic affair, reflecting the rejectionīy most Ukrainians of their corrupt and ineffective political elites, embodied in the person of Regarded as the collapse of the post-Cold War regional order in the wider Europe. Late 2013-which became known as the Euromaidan-would soon lead to what has been NOBODY COULD HAVE FORESEEN THAT THE TURMOIL WHICH erupted on the streets of Kyiv in Introduction: The Ukraine Crisis and Post-Postĭownloaded by at 10:04 08 June 2016
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