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2015, Eurasianet
Interview for Spanish magazine Eurasianet.es on Eastern/Central Europe and the Middle East. Did Ukraine become more "European" after a year since Euromaidan? What are the perspectives for the left in Ukraine under the "decommunization" laws? What are the perspectives for peace in Donbass?
The "EU project of Europe" has been facing multiple crises nowadays, the crucial issues would be: 1) the limits of its expansion (the extent of acceptable diversity); 2) penetration by cultural others, not sharing its " social contract " (migrants' and refugees' issue); 3) internal resistance (Euroscepticism); 4) complicated relations with its own frontier of hybrid nature (the USA and Russia as strategic partners involved in the European cultural areal). All the mentioned concerns are mirrored in the Ukrainian case that stands not only as a challenge but also as a possible way out. Within the Ukrainian revolution the idea of Europe worked in a twofold manner: synchronically, by unifying a significant part of society thus reestablishing it on the basis of some new agreements (dignity as a core value, solidarity as the main policy); diachronically, by setting the trajectory of further development and hereby forcing required changes (towards the EU as the institutional embodiment of the imaginary " Europe "). However, it did not regard existing European institutions as a template but rather appealed to the origins of the project of " Europe " , thus opposing itself to the distorted versions of present " Europe " as well. The paper is aimed at revealing the set of senses attached to the concept of Europe within the recent Ukrainian events, as well as at placing it in the broader context of the current crisis of the " Western civilization. "
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2020 •
Ukraine ended the 1980s as one of the most advanced parts of the Soviet super-power with a developed machine-building industry. Thirty years later, Ukraine’s major economic indicators are on a par with many Third World countries. The country is fundamentally dependent on the financial, political, and military support of the West, with politics dominated by a handful of powerful oligarchs, right-wing paramilitaries regularly marching on the streets, and a part of the country annexed by neighboring Russia and another part torn through by the frontline. It can rightfully be called the northernmost country of the Global South. Moreover, there is not any relevant political force with a vision of alternative progressive national development. Several profound contradictions have defined the dynamics of Ukrainian economy, politics and society since the collapse of the Soviet Union: the contradiction between transnational and local capital, those between factions of the local capital, Ukrainian national identity contradictions, geopolitical contradictions with Russia, the US, and EU, and contradictions between civil society, the active public, and Ukrainian society at large. I will first expose them, and then discuss how the Ukrainian new left has been failing to respond to these contradictions with a project for Ukraine’s alternative development.
The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
The Ukraine Syndrome and Europe: Between Norms and SpaceIt is no accident that the Euromaidan revolution from November 2013 was triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to postpone signing the Association Agreement with the European Union. This paper traces the connection between a certain type of Ukrainian state building, here labelled as monist, and the larger context of European institution building based on the eu, which from the pan-European perspective is also monist. These two monist projects, which fail systemically to allow for alternatives and pluralistic diversity, feed off and mutually reinforce each other. Neither in structural terms can imagine alternatives existing outside of themselves. Both are deeply plural internally, but claim certain hegemonic privileges. By contrast, projects for the constitutional incorporation of pluralistic diversity in Ukraine offer the perspective of national reconciliation, and this would be facilitated by the advancement of some sort of greater European pluralism that would obviate...
CEPS 3DCFTAs Analytical Papers Series
Democratisation and Europeanisation in 21st century Ukraine2020 •
Ukraine was established as a sovereign, pluralist and relatively free state within the framework of the post-Soviet 'third wave' of democratisation. Even with the strong impact of Europeanisation, Ukraine's political development was much more diverse than Western-oriented democratisation models, being also strongly influenced by informal power groups and competitive autocratic tendencies. In 2014, Euromaidan provided a revolutionary opportunity for fast liberal democratic reforms, but war, economic hardships, corruption, and divisive identity policies exhausted the post-revolutionary regime's support by 2019. Steps toward a stronger European-style democracy and rule of law were derailed by illiberal and autocratic processes. Since then the Zelenskyy regime has exhibited some signs of reverse Europeanisation, but without deflecting the main course of Ukraine's European orientation. While Ukrainian citizens predominantly respect key democratic values, this respect is not necessarily followed by post-Euromaidan governmental policies and political practice either under president Poroshenko, or under president Zelenskyy. Europeanisation has been important for the development of democracy in Ukraine, and the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement added to the internal impulse for democratic reforms and to limit autocratic tendencies.
IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences
Ukraine and the Missing European AgendaAn overview of Ukraine interms of nationhood and identity, and how this impacts upon current events in Ukraine, particularly with regards to Euromaidan and the on-going conflict. Much focus is given to linguistics and historical memory and interpretation and how this effects and creates divisions within Ukraine. Furthermore, the question of a European Ukraine is looked at, particularly in the current conflict context.
2018 •
The idea of European integration plays an important role in Ukrainian political discourse. This idea is crucial for a definition of Ukrainian foreign policy preferences and for the construction of Ukrainian national identity. In the Ukrainian context, this idea was found to be primarily constructed in regard to the question of the historical and geopolitical place of Ukraine. Public opinion in general largely reflects the instability in Ukraine-EU relations, as well as the inconsistent European integration policy of the Ukrainian government and the lack of a coherent policy from the side of European Union. This paper focuses on a study of how the European integration was conceptualized and metaphorically presented in the Ukrainian press in the period of 2005 – 2010. Based on the Critical Metaphor Analysis and Conceptual Metaphors approach, we investigate in this paper the main frames and metaphorical representations of Europe and the European integration in Ukrainian media. It can b...
Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" directed the world's attention to a nation formally brushed off as a Russian satellite state. The international press portrayed Victor Yushchenko's democratic challenge to the fraudulently elected Victor Yanukovych as the birth of Ukrainian independence. But though there's no doubt that Ukrainian civil society has come of age, is the independence movement as young as all that? The author gives a historical overview of Ukrainian relations with Russia, and argues that talk of an East-West divide along pro- and anti-Russian lines simplifies the reality of a culturally and ideologically eclectic nation.
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