Integration of Ukraine into NATO and its geopolitical implications
Journal: OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University)
Year: 2019

This thesis aims to analyze NATO integration process of Ukraine with its geopolitical causes and consequences in the context of annexation of Crimea and military conflict in Eastern Ukraine. This thesis claims that Ukraine’s NATO integration is driven by several geopolitical concerns of actors involved in the process and has serious geopolitical consequences for the parties. Accordingly, Ukraine’s NATO integration is a product of the US geopolitical interests identified over Eurasian region in o