The traditional east/west divide of Ukraine in terms of language, ethnicity, culture, religion and, not the least, historical memory, continues to nourish conflict and serve as a threat to the country´s integrity. The balancing of Ukrainianizing policies on the one hand, and the safeguarding of the rights, privileges and interests of the country´s large Russian minority on the other, has proven a major challenge to the shifting political leaderships in Kiev. Whereas a too nationalist approach to state driven nation-building easily could anger Ukraine´s Russophones and nourish cultural tension, Professor Pål Kolstø at the University of Oslo has argued that failure to establish a distinct Ukrainian nation could delegitimize the state project ...
Contextualisation This article combines insights from political science, history and soci...
Majority–minority relations in Ukraine, as in any other country, are a complex phenomenon. What diff...
In 1917 Ukrainian patriots took advantage of revolutionary upheaval in the Russian Empire to bid for...
The pace of democratic political and economic reforms in Ukraine has been slower than that of some o...
Ukraine belongs among those young countries where the beginnings of democratisation and nation-build...
The independent nation of Ukraine was born on December 1, 1991, when Russia\u27s Boris Yeltsin, Bela...
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine's foreign policy evolved in the geopoliti...
After the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Ukraine became an independent state. Despite an initial p...
This study will examine the factors influencing the construction of a common national identity in Uk...
This study examines the relationship between the foreign policy of multiethnic states and nation-bui...
Ukraine has been an independent state for 25 years. During the years of independence the democratic ...
The article is devoted to the problem of nation building in Ukraine. After 1991 Ukrainian political ...
The article examines the historical prerequisites for the formation of the ideology of Ukrainian nat...
This dissertation examines the interconnection between history, national identity and politics in Ea...
The article contains an analysis of the academic and popular political discourses concerning the Ukr...
Contextualisation This article combines insights from political science, history and soci...
Majority–minority relations in Ukraine, as in any other country, are a complex phenomenon. What diff...
In 1917 Ukrainian patriots took advantage of revolutionary upheaval in the Russian Empire to bid for...
The pace of democratic political and economic reforms in Ukraine has been slower than that of some o...
Ukraine belongs among those young countries where the beginnings of democratisation and nation-build...
The independent nation of Ukraine was born on December 1, 1991, when Russia\u27s Boris Yeltsin, Bela...
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine's foreign policy evolved in the geopoliti...
After the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Ukraine became an independent state. Despite an initial p...
This study will examine the factors influencing the construction of a common national identity in Uk...
This study examines the relationship between the foreign policy of multiethnic states and nation-bui...
Ukraine has been an independent state for 25 years. During the years of independence the democratic ...
The article is devoted to the problem of nation building in Ukraine. After 1991 Ukrainian political ...
The article examines the historical prerequisites for the formation of the ideology of Ukrainian nat...
This dissertation examines the interconnection between history, national identity and politics in Ea...
The article contains an analysis of the academic and popular political discourses concerning the Ukr...
Contextualisation This article combines insights from political science, history and soci...
Majority–minority relations in Ukraine, as in any other country, are a complex phenomenon. What diff...
In 1917 Ukrainian patriots took advantage of revolutionary upheaval in the Russian Empire to bid for...