Working Paper No 61 / 2021
Working Paper No 61 / 2021
The political, economic and social life of Ukraine has undergone significant changes over the past 30 years. Russian and foreign experts often have different opinions about the impact of these changes on the republic and its inhabitants. The authors of the working paper paid particular attention to the main aspects of state life and identified the main trends in the development of Ukraine during the years of its independence.
30th Anniversary...
... coalitions based on ideological principles and aimed at marginalizing, if not containing, other international players. This opposition relates not only to such defense alliances like NATO or AUKUS, but also to more amorphous structures like Quad. Turning ideology into the main principle defining the emerging new world order would be a strategic mistake with long-term implications for all of us. If ideological divisions prevail, conquer the public and get reflected in national strategies and doctrines,...
When evaluating contemporary Russia’s foreign policy, we need not rely on ghost stories from a time that has long since passed
Ideology is a crucial component in understanding the motivation behind any individual or group of people. Realism falsely presupposes that the motivation of actors can be understood purely through the lens of survival in a limited resources zero-sum domain....
... could conclude that Ukrainians are seeking a better life abroad, but it would be erroneous to believe that this trend has been apparent for the past five years. Internal migration indicates that people continue to be driven by economic stability, while ideology obviously takes a back seat. People naturally find it easier to migrate to the regions of the country which are more likely to embrace them (residents of western and central regions aim for Europe, whereas residents of eastern territories go ...
... Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Afghanistan in 1979–1989). Meanwhile, as the Soviet model continued to corrode, certain ideas pushed their way to the surface. First, they gained a niche for themselves within the domain of the official Marxist-Leninist ideology, then pushed the latter away and replaced it with values and concepts that were very unusual for that time.
A more or less similar process, naturally with certain allowances for the pluralistic nature of the Euro-Atlantic ideological universe,...
Amidst the negotiation of an attempted settlement to the East Ukraine armed conflict, a new stage of information and ideological confrontation appears to be unfolding between Russia and Ukraine, this time about their past. In fact, the fabric of the history of the Kievan Rus looks very much like a blanket, with each country trying to pull all of it to its side.
What we have seen so far has been sluggish but definitely intensifying jostling in the media, textbooks, movies and other cultural areas...
