ABSTRACT

This book analyses Ukraine’s relations with each of its neighbours in its first decade of independence. It examines the degree to which these relations fitted into Ukraine’s broad objective of reorienting its key political ties from East to West, and assesses the extent to which Ukraine succeeded in achieving this reorientation. It shows how in the early days of independence Ukraine fought off threats from Russia and Romania to its territorial integrity, and how it made progress in establishing good relations with its western neighbours as a means of moving closer toward Central European sub-regional and European regional organisations. It also shows how the sheer breadth and depth of its economic and military ties to Russia dwarfed Ukraine’s relations with all other neighbours, resulting in a foreign and security policy which attempted to counterbalance the competing forces of East and West.

part |2 pages

Part I Regionalism and Ukraine’s foreign and security policy

chapter 1|22 pages

A theoretical context

part |2 pages

PART II The North-eastern azimuth

chapter 2|25 pages

Ukraine’s relations with Slavic states

Relations with Russia

chapter 3|17 pages

The North-eastern azimuth

Subregional and regional integration

part |2 pages

PART III The Western azimuth

chapter 4|27 pages

Ukraine’s relations with Central and East European neighbours

Relations with Poland: from the declarative to the substantive

chapter 5|29 pages

The Western azimuth

Subregional and regional integration

part |2 pages

PART IV The Southern azimuth

chapter 7|15 pages

The Southern azimuth

Subregional and regional integration

chapter 8|19 pages

Conclusion