Canada And The Ukrainian Crisis

Author : Bohdan S. Kordan,Mitchell C.G. Dowie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228002734

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Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis by Bohdan S. Kordan,Mitchell C.G. Dowie Pdf

Since 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for Ukraine to a foreign policy priority. Although the move is often described as a radical departure, Bohdan Kordan and Mitchell Dowie contend that it was consistent with Canada's security interests and political and historical identity. In this calculation the worldview of Prime Minister Stephen Harper also figured prominently. Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis offers a timely explanation of the dynamic interaction between key factors - at the international, national, and individual levels - that shaped the Canadian government's response and imbued it with an unusual degree of urgency. Explaining the nature of the crisis and why it elicited such a forceful reaction from the Harper government, Kordan and Dowie assert that Canada's decision to side openly with Ukraine is best understood as a course correction, rather than a completely new foreign policy direction. They argue that this action reaffirmed Canada's historical commitment to a liberal rules-based order that has been an emblem of its foreign policy since the Second World War, treating the Ukrainian crisis as part of a wider struggle to defend liberal principles and values. Resolving lingering questions about the most serious geopolitical event since the end of the Cold War, Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis demonstrates that the policy changes triggered by the crisis represent a return to deep-rooted concerns about international order.

Author : John Herd Thompson,Frances Swyripa
Publisher : CIUS Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0920862225

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Loyalties in Conflict by John Herd Thompson,Frances Swyripa Pdf

Author : Bohdan S. Kordan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773556164

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Strategic Friends by Bohdan S. Kordan Pdf

Since the end of the Soviet Union, Canada has played a leading role in the international response to Ukraine and to the challenges associated with its transition to independence. As Conservative and Liberal governments alike have sought to adapt foreign policy to contend with uncertainty and upheaval, the relationship between Canada and Ukraine has remained resilient. In Strategic Friends Bohdan Kordan examines the intersections between global developments and Canada's evolving foreign policy in light of national interests, domestic factors, and political agency. His historical-comparative narrative follows the post-Cold War aspirations and ambitions of the Mulroney, Chrétien, Martin, and Harper governments as they worked to minimize conflict, increase security, contextualize the independence movement, manage bilateral relations, and promote election monitoring, as well as defend liberal democracy and the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Consulting media reports, official speeches, statements, published government documents, and archives of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Kordan highlights both continuities and shifts in policy during the leadership of four prime ministers, and reveals the undercurrents of contemporary Canadian foreign affairs. Investigating the progression of the Canada–Ukraine relationship, Strategic Friends queries the dynamics that have shaped Canada's foreign policy response in an age of change.

Author : Bohdan S. Kordan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773522305

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Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945 by Bohdan S. Kordan Pdf

A careful and detailed analysis of relations between the Canadian state and the Ukrainian Canadian community during a period of conflict and change.

Author : Nicolai Petro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351870078

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Ukraine in Crisis by Nicolai Petro Pdf

In this comprehensive volume, Canadian, Ukrainian, and American scholars examine various aspects of the Ukrainian crisis, and consider its impact on Europe. The chapters include topics such as: Russian narratives about Ukraine; the conflicting assumptions underlying their divergent nation-building agendas; new findings about the far right's involvement in the Maidan protests; the Ukrainian crisis from the perspective of Western grand strategy; the security implications of Russia's geopolitical agenda in Ukraine; the factors that contributed to the rise of separatism in Donbass; and the economic costs for Ukraine of choosing economic integration with Europe rather than Eurasia. This book demonstrates that the current crisis in Ukraine is much more complex than comes across in the media. It also explores the fact that, since Russia and Ukraine will always be neighbours, some sort of modus vivendi between them will have to be found. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.

Author : Serge Cipko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0889775605

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Starving Ukraine by Serge Cipko Pdf

Starving Ukraine examines the efforts of community groups and journalists who urged the Canadian government to denounce the starvation happening in Ukraine at the hands of the Soviets.

Author : Richard Sakwa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857724373

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Frontline Ukraine by Richard Sakwa Pdf

The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to choose between closer union with Europe or its historic ties with Russia. In providing the first full account of the ongoing crisis, Sakwa analyses the origins and significance of the Euromaidan Protests, examines the controversial Russian military intervention and annexation of Crimea, reveals the extent of the catastrophe of the MH17 disaster and looks at possible ways forward following the October 2014 parliamentary elections. In doing so, he explains the origins, developments and global significance of the internal and external battle for Ukraine.With all eyes focused on the region, Sakwa unravels the myths and misunderstandings of the situation, providing an essential and highly readable account of the struggle for Europe's contested borderlands.

Author : Manoly R. Lupul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126878821

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The Politics of Multiculturalism by Manoly R. Lupul Pdf

Author : Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228003090

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Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire by Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva Pdf

Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709), hetman of the Zaporozhian Host in what is now Ukraine, is a controversial figure, famous for abandoning his allegiance to Tsar Peter I and joining Charles XII's Swedish army during the Battle of Poltava. Although he is discussed in almost every survey and major book on Russian and Ukrainian history, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire is the first English-language biography of the hetman in sixty years. A translation and revision of Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva's 2007 Russian-language book, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire presents an updated perspective. This account is based on many new sources, including Mazepa's archive - thought lost for centuries before it was rediscovered by the author in 2004 - and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian historiography. Focusing on this fresh material, Tairova-Yakovleva delivers a more nuanced and balanced account of the polarizing figure who has been simultaneously demonized in Russia as a traitor and revered in Ukraine as the defender of independence. Chapters on economic reform, Mazepa's impact on the rise to power of Peter I, his cultural achievements, and the reasons he switched his allegiance from Peter to Charles integrate a larger array of issues and personalities than have previously been explored. Setting a standard for the next generation of historians, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire reveals an original picture of the Hetmanate during a moment of critical importance for the Russian Empire and Ukraine.

Author : David R. Marples
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1910814296

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Ukraine in Conflict by David R. Marples Pdf

Through a series of articles written between 2013 and 2017, this book examines Ukraine during its period of conflict - from the protests and uprising of Euromaidan, to the Russian annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of war in Ukraine's two eastern provinces Donetsk and Luhansk. It also looks at Ukraine's response to Russian incursions in the form of Decommunisation - the removal of Lenin statues, Communist symbols, and the imposition of the so-called Memory Laws of the spring of 2015. The book places these events in the context of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, and Ukraine's geostrategic location between Russia and the European Union. It seeks to provide answers to questions that are too often mired in propaganda and invective and to assess whether the road Ukraine has taken is likely to end in success or failure.

Author : Rajan Menon,Eugene B. Rumer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262536295

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Conflict in Ukraine by Rajan Menon,Eugene B. Rumer Pdf

One of The New York Times’ “6 Books to Read for Context on Ukraine” “A short and insightful primer” to the crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean Peninsula and Russia’s relations with the West (New York Review of Books) The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO's future, and put an end to one of the most ambitious projects of U.S. foreign policy—building a partnership with Russia. It also threatens to undermine U.S. diplomatic efforts on issues ranging from terrorism to nuclear proliferation. And in the absence of direct negotiations, each side is betting that political and economic pressure will force the other to blink first. Caught in this dangerous game of chicken, the West cannot afford to lose sight of the importance of stable relations with Russia. This book puts the conflict in historical perspective by examining the evolution of the crisis and assessing its implications both for the Crimean Peninsula and for Russia’s relations with the West more generally. Experts in the international relations of post-Soviet states, political scientists Rajan Menon and Eugene Rumer clearly show what is at stake in Ukraine, explaining the key economic, political, and security challenges and prospects for overcoming them. They also discuss historical precedents, sketch likely outcomes, and propose policies for safeguarding U.S.-Russia relations in the future. In doing so, they provide a comprehensive and accessible study of a conflict whose consequences will be felt for many years to come.

Author : Bohdan S. Kordan,Peter Melnycky
Publisher : CIUS Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0920862799

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In the Shadow of the Rockies by Bohdan S. Kordan,Peter Melnycky Pdf

Diary of an internment camp at Banff/Castle Mountain, operating between 1915 and 1917.

Author : Derek Averre,Kataryna Wolczuk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351692861

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The Ukraine Conflict by Derek Averre,Kataryna Wolczuk Pdf

It is not hyperbole to suggest that the foundations of post-cold war security in Europe have been badly damaged by the conflict in Ukraine since 2014. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in eastern Ukraine appear to have created a ‘simmering’ conflict, which may take years to resolve and have profound consequences for the European security environment. This volume explores the various political, economic and social aspects of these profound changes and their wider significance for Europe, bringing together contributions by scholars from across the continent and in various disciplinary fields to offer an authoritative, in-depth examination of the complex causes of the Ukraine crisis and the consequences for Ukrainian statehood, Ukraine’s relations with Russia, Russia’s own domestic governance and Russia’s relations with Europe. This book was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.

Author : Wilson, Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300212921

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Ukraine Crisis by Wilson, Andrew Pdf

A leading Ukraine specialist and firsthand witness to the 2014 Kiev Uprising analyzes the world’s newest flashpoint The aftereffects of the February 2014 Uprising in Ukraine are still reverberating around the world. The consequences of the popular rebellion and Russian President Putin’s attempt to strangle it remain uncertain. In this book, Andrew Wilson combines a spellbinding, on-the-scene account of the Kiev Uprising with a deeply informed analysis of what precipitated the events, what has developed in subsequent months, and why the story is far from over. Wilson situates Ukraine’s February insurgence within Russia’s expansionist ambitions throughout the previous decade. He reveals how President Putin’s extravagant spending to develop soft power in all parts of Europe was aided by wishful thinking in the EU and American diplomatic inattention, and how Putin’s agenda continues to be widely misunderstood in the West. The author then examines events in the wake of the Uprising—the military coup in Crimea, the election of President Petro Poroshenko, the Malaysia Airlines tragedy, rising tensions among all of Russia's neighbors, both friend and foe, and more. Ukraine Crisis provides an important, accurate record of events that unfolded in Ukraine in 2014. It also rings a clear warning that the unresolved problems of the region have implications well beyond Ukrainian borders.

Author : Elizabeth A. Wood,William E. Pomeranz,E. Wayne Merry,Maxim Trudolyubov
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231801386

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Roots of Russia's War in Ukraine by Elizabeth A. Wood,William E. Pomeranz,E. Wayne Merry,Maxim Trudolyubov Pdf

In February 2014, Russia initiated a war in Ukraine, its reasons for aggression unclear. Each of this volume's authors offers a distinct interpretation of Russia's motivations, untangling the social, historical, and political factors that created this war and continually reignite its tensions. What prompted President Vladimir Putin to send troops into Crimea? Why did the conflict spread to eastern Ukraine with Russian support? What does the war say about Russia's political, economic, and social priorities, and how does the crisis expose differences between the EU and Russia regarding international jurisdiction? Did Putin's obsession with his macho image start this war, and is it preventing its resolution? The exploration of these and other questions gives historians, political watchers, and theorists a solid grasp of the events that have destabilized the region.