Ukraine in Central and Eastern Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1615-7
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 242, 376 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 466 g

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

The geopolitics of post-communist Europe are not only important for Ukraine itself, but ultimately also for the future of the continent as a whole. This concerns the interactions between Kyiv, on the one hand, and the capitals of East-Central Europe as well as the Southern Caucasus, on the other. Where does Kyiv currently stand geopolitically and how should it engage in the region between the Baltic, Adriatic, Black, and Caspian Seas?

This volume examines which interests and motivations some select countries in East-Central Europe and the Caucasus have towards Ukraine and provides answers to the question which chances there are for new multilateral networks or structures. Such multilateralism around Ukraine could go beyond the already existing, yet geographically and functionally circumscribed Organization for Democracy and Economic Development (GUAM), the Visegrad Four, the Bucharest Nine Group, and the Three Seas Initiative.

The volume also illustrates how the ever-present “elephant in the room”—Russia—shapes the international relations of the post-Soviet space. Researchers from several post-communist countries examine these issues from their specific points of view.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schäffer, Sebastian

Gyarmati, Istvan

Chitadze, Nika

Bratko, Iryna

Voroshylova, Inna

Marušiak, Juraj

Stulik, David

Legucka, Agnieszka

Mangiameli, Federica

Gretskiy, Igor

Gramada, Angela

Huseynov, Rusif

Malek, Martin

Musteata, Sergiu

Pavlenko, Irina

Umland, Andreas

Us, Ivan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Gyarmati, Istvan

Chitadze, Nika

Bratko, Iryna

Voroshylova, Inna

Marusiak, Juraj

Stulik, David

Legucka, Agnieszka

Mangiameli, Federica

Gretskiy, Igor

Klimkin, Pavlo

Gramada, Angela

Huseynov, Rusif

Malek, Martin

Musteata, Sergiu

Pavlenko, Irina

Schäffer, Sebastian

Us, Ivan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik

Über Autor(innen)

Malek, Martin
Dr. Martin Malek studied political science and macroeconomics in Vienna and Moscow. Since 1998, he has been a Senior Researcher at Austria’s National Defense Academy in Vienna. He is the author of Militärdoktrin und Marinepolitik der UdSSR 1956–1985 (Peter Lang 1992), Die europäische Dimension der Sicherheitspolitik Rußlands (IAS 1997) as well as co-editor, with Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja, of Europa im Tschetschenienkrieg (ibidem Press 2008) and Der Zerfall der Sowjetunion (Nomos 2013). Malek has published some 300 articles in, among other outlets, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Asian Survey, and Osteuropa.

Gretskiy, Igor
Dr. Igor Gretskiy Research fellow, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, International Centre for Defence and Security, Tallinn, Estonia. Until 2022, Dr. Gretskiy was affiliated with the School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He received his Cand. of Hist. Sc. degree from St. Petersburg State University in 2009. His research interests include Russia’s foreign policy toward the Central and Eastern Europe; Russian-Ukrainian & Polish-Russian relations.

The editor:

Sebastian Schäffer studied political science, European law, and East European affairs in Regensburg and Munich. Since 2019, he is the Managing Director of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) in Vienna. Schäffer is also Associate Fellow at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute in Bratislava and Secretary General of the Danube Rectors’ Conference (DRC). His previous books include Balkan nach Europa – sofort! (story.one 2021). His articles have been published in, among other outlets, Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration, Der Donauraum, and Fair Observer.

The author of the foreword:

Pavlo Klimkin held, among others, the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in 2014–2019.