Ukraine over the edge
Subtitle: Russia, the West and the "new Cold War"
By: Gordon M. Hahn
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781476669014
Subjects: Politics and government; Geopolitics; Ukraine Conflict, 2014-; Foreign relations; History
Other titles: Russia, the West and the "new Cold War"
Description: "This study focuses on the Ukrainian crisis, from the rise of demonstrations on Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti to the making of the post-revolt regime. The author sheds new light on the role of radical Ukrainian nationalists and neofascists in the February 2014 snipers' massacre, the ouster of President Yanukovych and Russia's seizure of Crimea"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-355) and index.
Table of contents: title: A world split apart: geopolitical and civilizationalist sources; title: The tectonics of Ukraine's schisms; title: NATO expansion: operationalizing the geopolitical and civilizational divides; title: Democracy promotion: the dual-use technology of color revolution; title: Geopolitics, a faultline state, and a "stateness" problem; title: Ukraine's "perfect storm"; title: Maidan; title: Putin's Crimea gambit: from revolution to civil war; title: Terror in Donbass: Putin's war or civil war?; title: "Revolution of dignity" revolution in vain?