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Contemporary Ukraine: International Relations

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Europe's Last Frontier? Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine between Russia and the European Union

Oliver Schmidtke & Serhy Yekelchyk (eds)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN 0-230-60372-6

The book examines the foreign and domestic policies of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova with an eye to the lasting legacy of Russian domination and the growing attraction of Europe.

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Ukraine's Foreign and Security Policy 1991-2000

Roman Wolczuk

London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
ISBN 0700717404

The book analyses Ukraine's relations with each of its neighbours in the 1990s, examining the degree to which these relations fitted into Ukraine's broad objective of reorienting its key political ties from East to West, and assessing the extent to which this objective was achieved.

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Poland and Ukraine: A Strategic Partnership in a Changing Europe?

Kataryna Wolczuk & Roman Wolczuk

London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2002
ISBN 1-86203-137-1

The book outlines the traditionally difficult relations between Poland and Ukraine and assesses the changes in the last decade, which have resulted in very constructive bilateral relations between the two states.

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Ukraine and Europe. A Difficult Reunion

Marko Bojcun

London: Kogan Page, 2001
ISBN 0-7494-3509-7

A study of the development of relations between Ukraine and Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, focusing on Ukraine's ties with the European Union and its membership of the Council of Europe.

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Ukraine in the World: Studies in the International Relations and Security Structure of a Newly Independent State

Lubomyr A. Hajda (ed)

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1999
ISBN 0-916458-89-X (soft)

A collection of articles on Ukraine's international relations from the end of the 1980s, including relations between Ukraine and its neighbours, the USA, Canada, Western Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Southern Hemisphere. National and regional security issues are also covered.

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Keystone in the Arch: Ukraine in the Emerging Security Environment of Central and Eastern Europe

Sherman W. Garnett

Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997
ISBN 0-87003-101-5

A study of the role of independent Ukraine in establishing lasting security in Central and Eastern Europe, in which the author argues that Ukraine could become the 'keystone' of a new security arch reaching from the Baltic to the Black Sea.