Full Description
The current crisis in Ukraine has revealed a striking lack of background knowledge about Ukraine's history and politics among West European politicians, journalists, intellectuals and even many academics. In this book, experts from Poland, Ukraine, the US, Russia and Western Europe fill the gap between an omnipresent and easily available narrative about Russia and a scarce, scattered knowledge about Ukraine. They show what history and political science can offer for a better understanding of the crisis and provide insights, which are based on reliable Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Turkish sources and confidential interviews with key actors and advisors. Rather than offering easy answers, the authors present facts and knowledge, which enables the reader to make up his own informed opinion.
Contents
Contents: Andrzej Szeptycki: Independent Ukraine - Maciej Wapiński: The Orange Revolution and its Aftermath - Igor Lyubashenko: Euromaidan: From the students' protest to mass uprising - Adam Balcer: Borders within Borderland: The ethnic and cultural diversity of Ukraine - Paweł Kowal: Oligarchy, Tyranny and Revolutions in Ukraine 1991-2014 - Inge Christensen: Nationalism, Party Politics and Political Transition: Batkivshchyna and UDAR - Adrian Mandzy: Nationalism and the Ideological Identities of Svoboda and Right Sector - Igor Torbakov: «This Is a Strife of Slavs among Themselves»: Understanding Russian-Ukrainian Relations as the Conflict of Contested Identities - Nedim Useinov: Crimea: from annexation to annexation, or how history has come full circle - Natalia Shapovalova: The role of Crimea in Ukraine - Russia relations - Spasimir Domaradzki: The role of NATO and the EU in the Ukrainian Crisis - Maria Przełomiec: Poland on the Euromaidan - Thomas Sparrow: From Maidan to Moscow: Washington's response to the crisis in Ukraine - Klaus Bachmann/Igor Lyubashenko: The Role of Digital Communication Tools in Mass Mobilisation, Information and Propaganda - Ireneusz C. Kamiński: International Law Aspects of the Situation in Ukraine - Klaus Bachmann: The Challenges: Political and Economic Transition - Iryna Havdiak/Artur Inderike: Timeline.
