Partnerskapet som förblivit partnerskap : en teoriprövande tvåfallstudie om Natomedlemmarnas roll i Ukrainas uteblivna Natomedlemskap
Journal: KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Year: 2025

This thesis tests Charles A. Kupchan’s hypotheses about discord and cooperation to explain why Ukraine has not received a membership invitation from NATO, despite the promise made in 2008. The hypotheses are examined on the cases of the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the Russian mobilization in 2021, focusing on the NATO-members United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France. The result shows that Kupchan’s hypotheses partly explain the discord and that the domestic politics hypothesis, thr