Ukraine crisis : what it means for the West /
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Author / Creator: | Wilson, Andrew, 1961- author. |
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Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014] |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : maps |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13453152 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Unfinished Europe; 2008: The New Year Zero; Putin Returns; Institutional Europe Enlarges; Post-modern Europe; Post-modern Russia; Economic Europe Stagnates; Energy Dependency; America Retrenches; Competitive Reset; Europe and Russia; Russia's 'Humiliation'; The Effect on Eastern Europe; European Neighbourhood Policy, Russian Neighbourhood Policy; Other Options for Eastern Europe; The Rise of Other Powers; The Vilnius Summit; Conclusion; 2 Russia Putinesca; Russia's Virtual Politics; Russia's Virtual State.
- MedvedevPutin Stumbles and Recovers, 2011-12; Putin's Conservative Values Project; Geopolitics; Russian Neighbourhood Policy; Information War; Conclusion; 3 Yanukovych's Ukraine; The Background; The First Revolution; The Orange Soap Opera; Russia's Role; Orange Government, 2005-10; The 2010 Election; Breaking the Formal Rules; Political Prosecutions; Breaking the Informal Rules; How Corruption Worked; Mezhyhirya-Stan; No Cover Story; The 2012 Elections; The Run-up to Vilnius; The Final Breakdown; Conclusion; 4 Maidan 2.0; Demonstration, But Low Expectation; Spot the Fascist.
- The Maidan Becomes a CampWho Were the Demonstrators?; Tactics; Staccato Repression; The Titushki; The Russia Agreement; Could the Maidan Have Fizzled Out?; The Dictatorship Laws; The Battles on Hrushevsky Street; The Regions; Zig-Zag; Conclusion; 5 The Uprising; Tuesday, 18 February; Thursday, 20 February; Friday, 21 February; Saturday, 22 February
- Yanukovych's Flight to Kharkiv; To Crimea, via Donetsk; The Aftermath in Kiev; Paradigms of Resistance; Conclusion; 6 Crimea; Island Crimea: Always a Melting Pot; The Crimean Tatars; Crimea After 1991; Crimea under Yanukovych.
- Surkov's Footprints?The Crimean Coup; The Military Operation; The 'Referendum'; The Pirate Republic; The Crimean Tatars as Ukraine's Last Hope; Strategic Implications; Conclusion; 7 The Eastern Imbroglio; The Geopolitics of the Donbas; Burden or Jewel?; 'New Russia'; The 'Family'; The Locals; Russia's Role; Akhmetov's Dangerous Game; The Passive-Aggressive Donbas; Boyars versus Otamans; Anarchy in East Ukraine; The Anti-Terrorist Operation; The Paradoxes of Hybrid War; Flight MH17; Convoys; Massacre at Ilovaisk; Conclusion; 8 Ukraine's Unfinished Revolution, or a Revolution Barely Begun?
- The 'Maidan' after the MaidanDisorder; The New Government; The Birth of a New Political Nation; Poroshenko Becomes President; Promised and Stalled Reform; Limited 'Lustration'; What Future for the Oligarchy?; Russian Pressure, Russian Influence; Piecemeal Reform; Conclusion; 9 Other Hotspots; Russia and Its Neighbours; Moldova; Russian Pressure Points; Georgia; Challenges from Russia; The Baltic States; Russian Influence; The Post-modern Phase; Belarus; Armenia and Azerbaijan; Wider Ripples; Conclusion; 10 Russia versus the West; What Did Putin Want?; Blowback: The Russian Question.