Abstract
For over 30 years of Ukraine’s independence, the ‘course to the West’ in foreign and security policy has experienced several changes, moving from ‘virtual Europeanization’ through ‘multi-vector’ policy to inscribing full membership in the EU and NATO in the Ukrainian Constitution. Such lack of consistency in the policy of affiliation with the West is a consequence of both internal and international factors. The obstacles on Ukraine’s way to the West are both resistance within the country itself and processes in the international arena, especially between the West and Russia, which currently resulted in the war that began on February 24, 2022. Despite this, Ukraine’s attempts to move closer to the West are slowly bearing fruit. In this chapter, the author aims to analyze external and internal determinants of Ukraine’s foreign policy toward the widely understood West, applying the perspective of neoclassical realism.
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Blyzniuk, M. (2023). Ukraine’s Attempts to Join the West. In: Zięba, R. (eds) Politics and Security of Central and Eastern Europe. Contributions to Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16419-4_7
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