Ukraine under the Consideration of US–EU Bilateral Relations

• Authors: Golovan Oleksandr
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article describes the primary US and EU foreign policy regarding Ukraine. The basic interests of both the United States and the European Union have been inspected. The Ukrainian drift to the Western institutions has been defined as the natural and predictable trend. The potential temporary losses because of the geopolitical integration with transatlantic counterparts have been foreseen.

Keywords

EN

USA; European Union; Ukraine; Russia; interests; security; economics; foreign policy; relations; world politics

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Wydawnictwo UMK
• Journal: Historia i Polityka
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 14(21)
• Pages: 9-24

Contributors

author

Golovan Oleksandr

• World History Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/HiP.2015.016