Ukraine over the edge : Russia, the West, and the "new Cold War" /

This study focuses on the Ukrainian crisis, from the rise of demonstrations on Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti to the making of the post-revolt regime. The author sheds new light on the role of radical Ukrainian nationalists and neofascists in the February 2014 snipers' massacre, the ouster of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hahn, Gordon M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Subjects:	Ukraine Conflict, 2014- Ukraine > Politics and government > 1991- Ukraine > History > 1991- Geopolitics > Ukraine. Ukraine > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > Ukraine. United States > Foreign relations > Ukraine. Ukraine > Foreign relations > United States. Ukraine > Foreign relations > European Union countries. European Union countries > Foreign relations > Ukraine.

Table of Contents:

A world split apart: geopolitical and civilizationalist sources
The historical roots of Ukraine's schism
Western expansionism: operationalizing the geopolitical and civilizational divides
Democracy promotion: the dual-use technology of color revolution
Ukraine's "stateness" problem: the tectonics of a faultline state
Ukraine's "perfect storm"
Maidan
Putin's Crimea gambit: from revolution to civil war
Terror in Donbass: Putin's war or civil war?
"Revolution of dignity" or revolution in vain?