What does Ukraine think?

With the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the conflict in the Donbas, the European Union needs more than ever to understand what Ukrainians themselves think about their future, according to an essay collection published in May 2015 by the European Council on Foreign Relations. In What does Ukraine think?, edited by Andrew Wilson, the authors argue that too much of the debate and the diplomacy in the current crisis has been conducted without Ukraine.

This volume allows leading Ukrainian experts – among whom Serhiy Leshchenko, Anton Shekhovtsov, and Andrey Kurkov - to put forward their own point of view, giving a flavour of local debates in the terms and frames of reference that Ukrainians use. ECFR gives a platform for what Ukrainians call the 'direct voice' of participants themselves.

There are four sets of papers:

• on Ukraine in a time of war and revolution
• on the political situation and the war in the east
• on Ukraine’s changing national identity and regional dynamics
• and on the difficulties of implementing much-needed reforms under conditions of war

ESO: Key Source: Euromaidan - Protests in Ukraine 2013 - 2015 - Key source http://www.europeansources.info/record/euromaidan-protests-in-ukraine-2013-2015/

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