Polish-Ukrainian Relations
Journal: Advances in public policy and administration (APPA) book series
Year: 2020

The conflict in Ukraine, which flared up at the turn of 2013 and 2014, has become the biggest challenge for security of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the USSR. Occupation of Crimea and war in Donbas also initiated a debate on the geopolitical conditions of US-EU-Russia relations. The confrontation divided analysts and politicians into those who believe that aggression was caused by the expansive attitude of the West and others who point to Russia's neo-imperial tendencies. For Pol