The irreversibility of history: the case of the Ukrainian crisis (2013–2015)

Autor: Stylianos A. Sotiriou
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 16:51-70
ISSN: 1743-9639
1468-3857
DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2016.1150700
Popis: Today’s Ukraine figures as the land of irreconcilable differences, on the verge of disintegrating into different parts. Issues regarding nation-building processes, national identity types within the main ethnic communities, as well as regional political preferences have all become critical. Thus, this paper examines how enduring regional political preferences, embedded in a fragmented and porous national identity framework, have been serving as destabilizing factors in the eastern part of the country. The conclusions offer an understanding of the 2013–2015 crisis, while they can also be extrapolated to other regions of the ex-Soviet space.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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