From Revolution to Transformation and European Integration: Ukraine after the Maidan Revolution

Aram Terzyan

CSIE Working Papers, 2020, issue 15, 45-57

Abstract: This paper explores the challenges and opportunities of post-Maidan Ukraine's transformation and European integration. It suggests that despite a series of hindrances to post-Maidan Ukraine's state-building, ranging from separatism to residual oligarchic influence and authoritarian legacy, the country has demonstrated strong resilience and persistence in asserting its European orientation. The paper offers a more dynamic structure - agency interplay approach to account for the dynamics behind post-Maidan Ukraine's state-building. It contends that despite constraining external conditions, domestic actors remain the key agents to shape the process of country's transformation and approximation towards Europe. Therefore, the implementation of fundamental economic and political reforms has a great deal to do with the governments' ability to overcome bureaucratic resistance to change, eliminate systemic corruption and diminish major oligarchs' considerable influence in Ukraine. This study enquires into the dynamics of post-revolution Ukraine's democracy consolidation and European integration amid the mounting confrontation in the EU-Russia contested neighborhood.

Keywords: Ukraine; Maidan Revolution; European Integration; state-building; EU-Russia neighborhood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://csei.ase.md/wp/files/issue15/WP_Issue15_45-57_TER.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aem:wpaper:y:2020:i:15:p:45-57

Access Statistics for this article

CSIE Working Papers is currently edited by Olesea SIRBU

More articles in CSIE Working Papers from Center for Studies in European Integration (CSEI), Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (ASEM) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dr. Rodica CRUDU ().