“Looking Like Wolves to the Forest”: Ukrainian Statehood between Pereyaslav and a Common European Home
Journal: cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
Year: 2015

This thesis examines Ukraine’s domestic instability and undecided East-West geopolitical orientation in a long-term historical context defined by weak or non-existent statehood and ambiguous and suppressed nationhood. Ukraine’s geopolitical environment has been cyclical, in that it has faced an East-West pull especially during brief periods of independence: prior to 1654, during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and from 1991 to the present. Moreover, Ukrainian statehood was subsumed and qua