Origins of the Ukrainian Crisis
Journal: Critique
Year: 2015

The author explores the origins of the crisis in the socio-economic and political developments of the country and the region since 1991. He finds that the convergence of several factors was responsible for provoking the crisis: the loss of a social consensus and democratic legitimacy by the Ukrainian state leadership; its international isolation between rival Western and Russian projects of regional economic integration and security; the revival of Russian imperialism after 2000; divisions betwe