Ukraine over the edge : Russia, the West and the "new Cold War" /

"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 ous...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hahn, Gordon M. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1641266
Table of Contents:
  • A world split apart: geopolitical and civilizationalist sources
  • The tectonics of Ukraine's schisms
  • NATO expansion: operationalizing the geopolitical and civilizational divides
  • Democracy promotion: the dual-use technology of color revolution
  • Geopolitics, a faultline state, and a "stateness" problem
  • Ukraine's "perfect storm"
  • Maidan
  • Putin's Crimea gambit: from revolution to civil war
  • Terror in Donbass: Putin's war or civil war?
  • "Revolution of dignity" revolution in vain?