Beschreibung
The crisis in Ukraine has revealed a lack of background knowledge about Ukraine among West European politicians, journalists and even academics. For a better understanding of the crisis, this book provides historical and political insights based on reliable Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Turkish sources and interviews with key actors and advisors.
Autorenportrait
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
magazine.
Rezension
«Das Buch ist insbesondere Ukraine-Kennern zu empfehlen. Es ist analytisch und interdisziplinär.»
(Katarzyna Stoklosa, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 65/2016)
Inhalt
Contents: Andrzej Szeptycki: Independent Ukraine – Maciej Wapi?ski: 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 – Pawe? Kowal: Oligarchy, Tyranny and Revolutions in Ukraine 1991-2014 – Inge Christensen: Nationalism, Party Politics and Political Transition:
and UDAR – Adrian Mandzy: Nationalism and the Ideological Identities of
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 Prze?omiec: 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. Kami?ski: International Law Aspects of the Situation in Ukraine – Klaus Bachmann: The Challenges: Political and Economic Transition – Iryna Havdiak/Artur Inderike: Timeline.
