The Maidan Uprising, Separatism and Foreign Intervention: Ukraine's Complex Transition

ISBN-13: 9783631654569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 523 str.

Klaus Bachmann;Igor Lyubashenko

Opis

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."

Recenzje

«Das Buch ist insbesondere Ukraine-Kennern zu empfehlen. Es ist analytisch und interdisziplinär.» (Katarzyna Stoklosa, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 65/2016)

Spis treści

Contents: Andrzej Szeptycki: Independent Ukraine - Maciej Wapinski: 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 - Pawel 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 Przelomiec: 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. Kaminski: International Law Aspects of the Situation in Ukraine - Klaus Bachmann: The Challenges: Political and Economic Transition - Iryna Havdiak/Artur Inderike: Timeline.

O autorze

Klaus Bachmann, Professor of Political Science at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw (Poland), obtained a PhD in History from the University of Warsaw about the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in Galicia before World War I. Before his academic career, he was a media correspondent for German, Austrian and Swiss media in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.
Igor Lyubashenko is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He obtained a PhD at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin for his thesis about the European Neighbourhood Policy towards Eastern European states. He is also a member of the editorial team of the Polish New Eastern Europe magazine.