Ukraine Between the EU and Russia.
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ukraine and Russia: Managing Interdependence -- Why (not) Russia? -- The CIS framework: weak, ineffective multilateralism -- The default position: weak, asymmetric bilateralism -- Restart of post-Soviet integration under Putin -- Eurasian integration: getting down to business -- 3 Ukraine and Europe: Integration by Demand -- Why Europe? -- Political regime and declarative Europeanisation -- In pursuit of a framework for European integration -- The Association Agreement -- 4 The EU and the Yanukovych Regime: The Widening Gap -- The Yanukovych regime -- Yanukovych and the EU: sustaining the European choice? -- EU's political conditionality -- 5 Russia's New Integration Offer: Forcing Ukraine's Hand -- Yanukovych's economic priorities -- Russia's renewed integration offer -- Testing the compatibility of free trade with both Russia and the EU -- The search for a 'workable format' -- 6 Yanukovych, the EU and Russia: The End of Balancing -- Yanukovych's growing predicament -- The search of a creditor -- How Yanukovych made his choice -- From Vilnius to the Maidan -- 7 The Military Backlash -- Re-shaping Ukraine's borders and statehood -- In search of a political settlement: creating an enclave in eastern Ukraine -- The EU's 'wake-up' call -- 8 The Association Agreement: Trilateralisation amidst War -- Russia's objections to the DCFTA: salvaging its own integration agenda -- The EU and the suspension of the DCFTA -- 9 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book addresses the complex origins of the Ukrainian crisis. It places the crisis in a longer-term perspective and shows how the domestic political regime interpreted, balanced and eventually chose between the competing integration offers of Russia and the EU. It also explores the key implications for Ukraine's relations with the EU and Russia.