POST-REVOLUTIONARY NEOLIBERAL REFORMS IN UKRAINE (SECURITY CONTEXT)

• Authors: Chapichadze Khatuna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main question to be addressed while discussing post-revolutionary and in particular, post-EuroMaidan Revolution reforms being implemented in Ukraine is – how significant can be essentially neoliberal reforms being conducted in Ukraine in terms of overcoming first of all military-political, but also economic crisis and providing peace in the country, which could positively impact international security as well? Why can we assess post-EuroMaidan reforms as in fact neoliberal? Not only Georgian, but also other foreign libertarians’ direct active participation in the Ukrainian Government makes these reforms neoliberal, but first of all Ukrainian President – Petro Poroshenko’s broadly announced “4-Ds Program”. However, it is noteworthy to mention that there is still an important gap and internal controversy within the current Ukrainian leadership when it comes to the implementation of this program. There is also a meaningful controversy in addition to attempt assuming generally that neoliberal, and specifically, neoliberal economic policy in Ukraine as well, is an efficient strategy for internal or external conflict resolution and/or has conflict preventive function if we take into consideration much specific in many regards Georgian-Russian War of 2008 and current factual Russian-Ukrainian War, both conflicts taking place in parallel with the neoliberalization of Georgia and Ukraine.

Keywords

EN

Post-revolutionary reforms; post-EuroMaidan Revolution reforms; Ukraine; neoliberal; neoliberal economic policy; neoliberalization; conflict resolution; conflict prevention

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu i Przedsiębiorczości w Ostrowcu Świętokrzyskim
• Journal: Ante Portas – Studia nad Bezpieczeństwem
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 2(5)
• Pages: 39-44

Dates

published

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Chapichadze Khatuna

• Georgian Technical University

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