Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West

Andrew Wilson

Published by Yale University Press 2014

Ukraine Crisis

What It Means for the West

Andrew Wilson

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300212921

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A leading Ukraine specialist and firsthand witness to the 2014 Kiev Uprising analyzes the world’s newest flashpoint

The aftereffects of the February 2014 Uprising in Ukraine are still reverberating around the world. The consequences of the popular rebellion and Russian President Putin’s attempt to strangle it remain uncertain. In this book, Andrew Wilson combines a spellbinding, on-the-scene account of the Kiev Uprising with a deeply informed analysis of what precipitated the events, what has developed in subsequent months, and why the story is far from over.

Wilson situates Ukraine’s February insurgence within Russia’s expansionist ambitions throughout the previous decade. He reveals how President Putin’s extravagant spending to develop soft power in all parts of Europe was aided by wishful thinking in the EU and American diplomatic inattention, and how Putin’s agenda continues to be widely misunderstood in the West. The author then examines events in the wake of the Uprising—the military coup in Crimea, the election of President Petro Poroshenko, the Malaysia Airlines tragedy, rising tensions among all of Russia's neighbors, both friend and foe, and more. Ukraine Crisis provides an important, accurate record of events that unfolded in Ukraine in 2014. It also rings a clear warning that the unresolved problems of the region have implications well beyond Ukrainian borders.

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Andrew Wilson is senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and reader in Ukrainian Studies at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London. He has published widely on the politics of Eastern Europe, and his book The Ukrainians is now in its third edition. He lives in Oxford, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
CHAPTER 1. Unfinished Europe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2. Russia Putinesca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
CHAPTER 3. Yanukovych’s Ukraine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
CHAPTER 4. Maidan 2.0 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
CHAPTER 5. The Uprising Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
CHAPTER 6. Crimea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
CHAPTER 7. The Eastern Imbroglio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
CHAPTER 8. Ukraine’s Unfinished Revolution, or a Revolution Barely Begun? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
CHAPTER 9. Other Hotspots Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
CHAPTER 10. Russia versus the West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 248

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Published: November 4, 2014
ISBN: 9780300212921