This book examines the crisis in Ukraine, tracing its development and analysing the factors which lie behind it. It discusses above all how the two sides have engaged in political posturing, accusations, escalating sanctions and further escalating threats, arguing that the ease with which both sides have reverted to a Cold War mentality demonstrates that the Cold War belief systems never really disappeared, and that the hopes raised in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union for a new era in East-West relations were misplaced. The book pays special attention to the often ignored origins of the crisis within Ukraine itself, and the permanent damage caused by the fact that Ukrainians are killing Ukrainians in the eastern parts of the country. It also assesses why Cold War belief systems have re-emerged so easily, and concludes by considering the likely long-term ramifications of the crisis, arguing that the deep-rooted lack of trust makes the possibility of compromise even harder than in the original Cold War.
Author(s): J. L. Black, Michael Johns, Alanda D. Theriault (eds)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series - Volume 68
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor&Francis)
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 312
City: New York - London
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acronyms and abbreviations
Part I: International Relations
Assisted suicide: internal and external causes of Ukrainian Crisis
SERGEI M. PLEKHANOV
2 Caught between Russia and NATO: the EU during and after the Ukrainian Crisis
MICHAEL JOHNS
3 Belarus in the ‘new Cold War’: a promising mediator?
YANN BREAULT
4 The crisis in Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora: February–December
SERGE CIPKO
PART II Military
5 Brothers disunited: Russia’s use of military power in Ukraine
ROGER N. MCDERMOTT
6 Explaining the Ukrainian Army’s defeat in Donbass in 2014
PAUL ROBINSON
PART III Economic and social conditions
7 Western economic sanctions and East–West economic orientation of Russia
VLADIMIR POPOV
8 Lost and forgotten: the conflict through the eyes of the Donbass people
ELENA MALTSEVA
PART IV Image and perception
9 Setting the tone: misinformation and disinformation from Kyiv, Moscow, Washington and Brussels in 2014
J. L. BLACK
10 Shaping new narratives: how new histories are created
IVAN KURILLA
11 German attitudes towards Russia: the post-Maidan era in context
TIM NIEGUTH
12 The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: a summary of analysis, evidence and findings
IVAN KATCHANOVSKI
PART V Preference points
13 Concluding remarks
J. L. BLACK
14 Minsk II Agreement, 12 February 2015
15 Chronology of Key Events to Minsk II
J. L. BLACK AND SERGEI PLEKHANOV
Appendix
Index
