Ukraine and the Disenchantment of Europe
Journal: Malmö University Publications (Malmö University)
Year: 2015

In their chapter, “Ukraine and the Disenchantment of Europe”, Bo Petersson and Cecilie Stokholm Banke take up the current and acute situation between the EU, Russia and Ukraine, asking if Russia with its behavior and attitude towards Europe indeed will come to act as the ’other’ and eventually give the EU new momentum as a project. By analyzing the way the Crimean crisis from early on was framed with historical references both by Western commentators, politicians and historians , but indeed also