Ukraine The Search for a National Identity

by Wolchik, Sharon L.; Zviglyanich, Volodymyr; Basiuk, Victor; Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Martha; Bugajski, Janusz; Cohen, Ariel; Dobriansky, Paula J.; Goble, Paul A.; Havrylyshyn, Oleh; Holovakha, Evhen I.; Klobucar, Thomas F.; Kulinich, Nikolai A.; Miller, Arthu

• ISBN13: 9780847693467
• ISBN10: 0847693465
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-24
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This comprehensive book focuses on the challenges facing Ukraine as a newly emerged state after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Like all countries with no recent history of independence, Ukraine had to invent or recreate effective political institutions, reintroduce a market economy, and reorient its foreign policy. These tasks were impossible to accomplish without resolving the question of national identity. In this balanced and clear-eyed assessment, a team of U.S. and Ukrainian specialists explores the external and internal dimensions of national identity and statehood, providing a wealth of information previously unavailable to Western scholars.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xxi
Introduction: The Ambiguities of National Identity: The Case of Ukraine	1	(10)
Orest Subtelny
Part I: Emergent Ukraine
Nation-Building and Foreign Policy	11	(20)
Ilya Prizel
Ukraine: Toward a Viable National Ethos	31	(18)
Victor Basiuk
The Political Economy of Delayed Reform in Ukraine	49	(20)
Oleh Havrylyshyn
Ukraine as a Military Power	69	(26)
Stephen D. Olynyk
Ukraine's Russian Dilemma and Europe's Evolving Geography	95	(12)
Nikolai A. Kulinich
Establishing Independence in an Interdepent World	107	(14)
Paul A. Goble
U. S.-Ukrainian Relations in the 1990s: A View from Washington	121	(12)
Paula J. Dobriansky
Ukraine's Relations with the Visegrad Countries	133	(32)
Sharon L. Wolchik
Ryszard Zieba
Part II: Problems of Domestic Nation-Building
Ethnic Relations and Regional Problems in Independent Ukraine	165	(18)
Janusz Bugajski
Regionalism: An Underestimated Dimension of State-Building	183	(16)
Grigory Nemiria
Popular Social and Political Attitudes in Ukraine	199	(14)
Evhen I. Holovakha
Establishing Representation: Mass and Elite Political Attitudes in Ukraine	213	(24)
Arthur H. Miller
Thomas F. Klobucar
William M. Reisinger
State and Nation: Economic Strategies for Ukraine	237	(28)
Volodymyr Zviglyanich
Women's Organizations in Independent Ukraine	265	(20)
Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak
Ukrainian and Russian Organized Crime: A Threat to Emerging Civil Society	285	(18)
Ariel Cohen
Index	303	(4)
About the Contributors	307