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  title info:
    title: Ukraine against herself
    sub title: to be Euro-Atlantic, Eurasian, or neutral?
  name:
    name part: Simon, Jeffrey
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: National Defense University
    name part: Institute for National Strategic Studies.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (12 pages) : digital, PDF file.
  abstract: Since independence, Ukrainians have been evenly split between those who desire to be part of the Euro-Atlantic (European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization) community and those who gravitate toward Eurasia (Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States). During the 1990s, when the European Union and NATO were focused on Central Europe and Russia was politically down and economically weak, Ukraine was able to have it both ways. Since the Orange Revolution, Ukraine has made significant progress developing a Euro-Atlantic style democratic political system, demonstrated a vibrant open media and civil society, and successfully advanced civilian oversight of its military. Despite this progress, Ukrainian opinion remains sharply divided on integration into Euro-Atlantic institutions. Attempts by Ukrainian leaders and some current members of NATO to promote a Membership Action Plan have backfired. Not only has Russia, now more autocratic, responded with missile threats, cutting gas supplies, and meddling in Ukraine's domestic politics, but the crosscutting internal and external pressures are aggravating profound political instability, actually making Ukraine a less appealing candidate for membership in either the European Union or NATO. Under these circumstances, the challenge is to provide Ukraine sufficient time to consolidate successful democratic governance and develop domestic consensus on this critical strategic choice. Rather than pressing Ukraine toward early accession, the new U.S. administration should keep open the possibility of NATO membership, but for the time being encourage Ukraine to follow the model of Finland, another nonaligned Partner for Peace, as it attempts to reconcile the competing popular factions in the country and to navigate between its Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian neighbors. By nurturing its political stability, the United States will enhance Ukraine's value to the Alliance over the longer term.
  target audience: preschool
  note: by Jeffrey Simon.
  note: Title from title page of PDF document (viewed on: June 23, 2011).
  note: "February 2009."
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Approved for public release.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11).
  subject:
    geographic code: e-un---
  subject:
    topic: Government and political science
  subject:
    topic: Ukraine
  subject:
    topic: Nato
  subject:
    topic: International politics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Russia
  subject:
    topic: European union
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Cis
  subject:
    topic: Economic development
  subject:
    topic: Foreign policy
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    geographic: Ukraine
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1991-
  subject:
    geographic: Ukraine
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1991-
  subject:
    topic: ETHNIC RUSSIANS
  subject:
    topic: DOMESTIC POLITICS
  subject:
    topic: CIS(COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES)
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
  classification: D 5.417:238
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ukraine against herself
    name:
      name part: Simon, Jeffrey, 1942-
    identifier: (OCoLC)439770101
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Strategic forum ; no. 238
  identifier: http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo8930
  identifier: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA494885
  access condition: Approved for public release.
  record info:
    record content source: DTICE
    record creation date: 090330
    record change date: 20151202123124.0
    record identifier: in00002702997
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng