The contributors to this collection explore the multidimensional transformation of independent Ukraine and deal with her politics, society, private sector, identity, arts, religions, media, and democracy. Each chapter reflects the up-to-date research in its sub-discipline, is styled for use in seminars, and includes a bibliography as well as a recommended reading list. These studies illustrate the deep changes, yet, at the same time, staggering continuity in Ukraine’s post-Soviet development as well as various counter-reactions to it. All nine chapters are jointly written by two co-authors, one Ukrainian and one Western, who respond here to recent needs in international higher education. The volume’s contributors include, apart from the editors: Margarita M. Balmaceda (Seton Hall University), Oksana Barshynova (Ukrainian National Arts Museum), Tymofii Brik (Kyiv School of Economics), José Casanova (Georgetown University), Diana Dutsyk (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Marta Dyczok (University of Western Ontario), Hennadii Korzhov (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute), Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University), Pavlo Kutuev (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute), Olena Martynyuk (Columbia University), Oksana Mikheieva (Ukrainian Catholic University), Tymofii Mylovanov (University of Pittsburgh), Andrian Prokip (Ukrainian Institute for the Future), Oxana Shevel (Tufts University), Ilona Sologoub (Kyiv School of Economics), Maksym Yenin (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute), and Yuliya Yurchenko (University of Greenwich).
Matthew Rojansky
Matthew Rojansky is Director of The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
Georgiy Kasianov
Georgii Kasianov is Department Head at the Institute of History of Ukraine at the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv.
Mykhailo Minakov
Dr. Mikhail (Mykhailo) Minakov has been a Senior Advisor at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, since 2017. He is a prominent Ukrainian philosopher and empirical investigator who taught and researched, for over twenty years, at various universities in Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Working between Kyiv, Washington and Milan, Minakov specializes in political and social theory, international development, as well as the history of modernity. He is editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Ideology and Politics Journal published by the Good Politics Foundation in Kyiv. He also edits the Kennan Focus Ukraine blog, and philosophical web portal Koinè. Minakov is the author or co-author of twelve books as well as numerous articles in philosophy, politics, and history.
José Casanova
Tymofiy Mylovanov
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Oksana Barshynova
Tymofii Brik
Tymofii Brik is the rector at the Kyiv School of Economics and National coordinator of the European Social Survey in Ukraine. He received his PhD in social science from Carlos III of Madrid university, an MSc in sociology from Utrecht University and Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University. In 2018–2023, he had visiting positions in Northwestern, Stanford, and NYU universities. His papers appeared in Governance, Journal of Comparative Economics, Problems of Post-Communism. His paper “When church competition matters?”, published in Sociology of Religion, won the N. Panina award in 2018 by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.
Diana Dutsyk
Marta Dyczok
Marta Dyczok, D. Phil. (Oxford), is an Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Political Science, Western University, Canada, Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, and Adjunct Professor at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Her books include Ukraine’s Euromaidan: Broadcasting through Information Wars with Hromadske Radio (E-IR 2016) Ukraine Twenty Years After Independence: Assessments, Perspectives, Challenges (Aracne editrice 2015), Media, Democracy and Freedom: The Post-Communist Experience (Peter Lang 2009), and The Grand Alliance and Ukrainian Refugees (Palgrave Macmillan 2000). Her papers have been published in, among others, Europe-Asia Studies, Demokratizatsiya, and Canadian Slavonic Papers.
Hennadii Korzhov
Serhiy Kudelia
Pavlo Kutuev
Olena Martynyuk
Oksana Mikheieva
Mikheieva, Prof. Dr. Oksana (* 1971), Historikerin und Soziologin mit Schwerpunkt Migration, einschließlich Zwangsmigration und der Situation verschiedener vom Krieg betroffener Gruppen. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS) in Berlin, Professorin am Fachbereich Soziologie der Ukrainischen Katholischen Universität (Lwiw), außerdem Dozentin an der Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).
Andrian Prokip
Oxana Shevel
Ilona Sologoub
Maksym Yenin
Yuliya Yurchenko
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| Edited by | Matthew Rojansky , Georgiy Kasianov , Mykhailo Minakov |
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| Contributions by | Matthew Rojansky , Georgiy Kasianov , Mykhailo Minakov , José Casanova , Tymofiy Mylovanov , Margarita M. Balmaceda , Oksana Barshynova , Tymofii Brik , Diana Dutsyk , Marta Dyczok , Hennadii Korzhov , Serhiy Kudelia , Pavlo Kutuev , Olena Martynyuk , Oksana Mikheieva , Andrian Prokip , Oxana Shevel , Ilona Sologoub , Maksym Yenin , Yuliya Yurchenko |
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| Number of Pages | 400 |
| Language | English |
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| Publication date | 11.05.2021 |
| ISBN | 978-3-8382-7514-7 |
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“This timely book takes stock of Ukraine’s political, economic, social, and cultural development since 1991. It does so in an unconventional way: each chapter is the result of an exchange between a scholar based in Ukraine and a scholar based at a Western institution. The result is a lively dialogue within and across chapters, weaving together empirical richness and conceptual reflection. The Kennan Institute has provided the setting for this dialogue to take place. The book combines an introduction to the study of Ukraine with an assertion of the country’s political significance and a map for future research. It will be an important source of reference for scholars, policy-makers, and a wider interested public.”—Prof. Gwendolyn Sasse, University of Oxford and Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)
"This is a superb overview of the most important issues facing today's Ukraine, and of the history that underlies them. It skillfully charts Ukraine's journey from a Soviet republic to a truly independent electoral democracy. More importantly, it explains the attitudes behind the crucial question of Ukrainian identity, a complex and evolving set of issues that played a central role in Ukraine's rebellion against Russian domination and its rejection of ethnic nationalism in favor of multi-ethnic citizenship. This impressive volume reminds us of the difficult path that Ukraine continues to follow to meet the aspirations of its people, and of the true importance to all of us of Ukraine's future success in solidifying its sovereignty, democracy and independence.”—Eric S. Rubin, United States Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2016 to 2019
“The definite article that first appears and then disappears in the title of this volume signifies the transition of a post-Soviet republic into an independent state and a sovereign nation. How it happened, what the challenges are that Ukraine faces today and what lies ahead is explained with authority, balance, and precision by some of the leading experts in the field. To anyone who wants to understand the country in the midst of the most profound international crisis of the last decade this is a must read.”—Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University, author of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
“An innovative, collaboratively-written, interdisciplinary contemporary history of Ukraine that not only embraces but encourages a refreshing diversity of viewpoints. Ukraine’s dynamism is on full display.”—Rory Finnin, Professor at University of Cambridge
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