Managing the Ukrainian crisis: a challenge for European security

Mykola Kapitonenko

Abstract


The article addresses causes, effects, and ways of managing the crisis in and over Ukraine, which started with uprisings in Kiev and continued with Russian annexation of the Crimea and triggering internal conflict in the Donbas. Regional implications of the Ukrainian crisis are specifically targeted, while broader consequences for European security are examined through a change of the security paradigm prism.

Keywords


Ukrainian crisis, Realpolitik, Russian revisionism, European security, frozen conflicts, weak states

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/we.2016.2.2.97
Date of publication: 2017-06-20 11:55:50
Date of submission: 2017-06-20 10:05:24


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