REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN GLOBAL SYSTEMS: A SOCIAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICIES IN UKRAINE
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

From late 2013 until the present, a series of crises and conflicts have wracked Ukraine and contributed toward regional insecurity. Scholarship on European and Russian foreign policy toward Ukraine has focused on understanding the theories underlying the policy decisions. This paper seeks instead to apply social systems theory to understand how regional differences contribute to differences in what Moravcsik calls state preferences, as expressed in states’ foreign policies; this is done by inves