TY - BOOK AU - Bachmann,Klaus AU - Lyubashenko,Igor AU - Bachmann,Klaus AU - Lyubashenko,Igor TI - The Maidan Uprising, Separatism and Foreign Intervention: Ukraine's complex transition T2 - Studies in Political Transition SN - 9783653046502 AV - DK508.848 -- .M35 2014eb U1 - 947.7086 PY - 2014/// CY - Frankfurt a.M. PB - Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften KW - European Union -- Ukraine KW - Ukraine -- History -- Euromaidan Protests, 2013-2014 KW - Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 1991- KW - Ukraine -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation) KW - Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Ukraine KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Table of contents -- Introduction: What science can contribute to political controversy -- Acknowledgements -- Independent Ukraine -- Ukraine within the Soviet Union -- The road towards independence -- The political system of independent Ukraine -- From Leonid Kravchuk to Leonid Kuchma -- The Orange Revolution and its Aftermath -- Euromaidan: From the students' protest to mass uprising -- Causes of the protest -- The escalation of violence and the changing nature of the protest -- Main actors -- Maidan in post-Yanukovych Ukraine -- Borders within Borderland: The ethnic and cultural diversity of Ukraine -- A general overview of Ukraine's ethnic and religious structure -- East vs.West or South vs. North -- South, East vs West and Centre -- The regions of Ukraine -- The East -- Donbas -- The Southern Part of Sloboda Ukraine (Kharkiv) -- The South -- Dyke Pola (Zaporizhia and Budjak) -- Crimea -- The Centre -- Hetmanate and The Northern Part of Sloboda Ukraine -- Right-Bank Ukraine (Kyiv) -- Podillya -- The West -- Eastern Galicia -- Volyn -- Northern Bukovina -- Zakarpattia -- Oligarchy, Tyranny and Revolutions in Ukraine 1991-2014 -- Phase 1. The beginnings in the perestroika era -- Phase 2. The establishment of an oligarchy -- Phase 3. Change in the system -- Phase 4. An attempt to institute the "Russian variant" -- Nationalism, Party Politics and Political Transition: Batkivshchyna and UDAR -- Batkivshchyna -- Klitschko and UDAR -- Nationalism and the Ideological Identities of Svoboda and Right Sector -- "This Is a Strife of Slavs among Themselves": Understanding Russian-Ukrainian Relations as the Conflict of Contested Identities -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Crimea: from annexation to annexation, or how history has come full circle -- From Catherine II to Khrushchev: Crimea as a part of Russia; From cession to secession: Crimea within Ukraine -- Crimea in the light of the 2001 census -- Sources of separatism after 1990 -- Crimea within Russia? -- The role of Crimea in Ukraine - Russia relations -- From the Soviet Union disintegration to the Big Treaty of 1997 -- Crimean separatism and Russian claims for Crimea in the first half of the 1990s -- The Crimean issue and the division of the Black Sea Fleet -- The role of Crimea in Russia's strategy of influence over Ukraine -- Conflict around Tuzla and a dispute about maritime borders -- Tools of Russian influence in Crimea -- Viktor Yuschenko's presidential attempts to minimise Russian influence -- Crimea after the Russia-Georgia war -- Yanukovych's presidency and the "gas for fleet" deal -- Russia's annexation of Crimea -- The role of NATO and the EU in the Ukrainian Crisis -- NATO's new/old role -- Ukraine and NATO -- NATO's reaction on Ukrainian crisis -- Ukraine and the EU -- From the Orange Revolution to Yanukovych -- EU, Ukraine and the recent crisis -- Preliminary comments on a process not yet ended -- Poland on the Euromaidan -- The beginnings -- Political support -- From 1992 to 1995 -- From 1995 to 2004 -- The Orange Revolution -- From 2005 to 2010 -- From 2010 to 2013 -- Historical background as the ending -- From Maidan to Moscow: Washington's response to the crisis in Ukraine -- Stage one: caution -- Stage two: increased interest -- Stage three: Crimea takes centre stage -- Three stages and four pillars of US involvement -- The Role of Digital Communication Tools in Mass Mobilisation, Information and Propaganda -- The Virtual Maidan -- Overview of Ukraine's media system -- The growing significance of new media -- Lessons from the Maidan - new media as a tool of spreading information -- Lessons from the Maidan - new media as a tool of co-ordination -- Political significance; Propaganda and disinformation -- A Russian propaganda campaign abusing the internet? -- International Law Aspects of the Situation in Ukraine -- The legal construct of aggression -- Other crimes under the ICC Statute -- The United Nations' framework -- The Council of Europe -- The European Court of Human Rights -- The Challenges: Political and Economic Transition -- Political and constitutional reform -- Economic challenges -- Transitional Justice -- Ukraine and the ICC -- Transitional Justice and security sector reform -- Vetting the judiciary -- Summary and conclusions -- Timeline -- Bibliography -- List of geographic names -- Authors N2 - The crisis in Ukraine has revealed a lack of background knowledge about Ukraine among West European politicians, journalists and even academics. For a better understanding of the crisis, this book provides historical and political insights based on reliable Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Turkish sources and interviews with key actors and advisors UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ostimteknik/detail.action?docID=1840993 ER -