Ukraine's Place in Europe and Two Decades of Hungarian-Ukrainian Relations
Journal: Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Year: 2013

Samuel P. Huntington wrote, “Human history is the history of civilizations.” Civilisation, in turn, refers to the complete way of life of a people. In the postCold War world, peoples sharing a cultural unity have come together (Germany), while societies with “civilisational” differences have broken up (the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia) or they have been kept together at the price of tensions – Ukraine belongs in this latter group.2 After Russia, Ukraine is Europe’s second largest country in area.