Overview
- Presents a comprehensive overview of Ukraine's nuclear history
- Describes the integration of Ukraine into the international community
- Based on extensive primary source material
Part of the book series: Contributions to International Relations (CIR)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- Nuclear weapons
- Russian-Ukrainian relations
- Post Soviet Union politics
- Nuclear infrastructure
- Hybrid war
- Eastern Ukraine
- Crimea
- Ukrainian nuclear reversal process
- Soviet nuclear program
- Disarmament
- Security assurances
- Budapest Memorandum
- Intercontinental ballistic missiles
- United States
- Ukraine's integration into the international community
About this book
This book presents a comprehensive overview of Ukraine's nuclear history, beginning from its experiences within the Russian Empire in the early 20th century, through the Soviet period, to the emergence of Ukraine as an independent state that inherited the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.
The book discusses the development of the nuclear infrastructure on Ukrainian soil and offers a rich and nuanced background of how Ukraine became an important and integrated part of the Soviet nuclear infrastructure. It further analyzes Ukraine's nuclear disarmament based on extensive primary source material and places the Ukrainian nuclear reversal process in a larger international political context where Russia´s, the United States, and other players´ actions are interpreted in the light of the impact on the current nuclear non-proliferation regime. Finally, the book presents the nuclear-related development after the nuclear disarmament. It describes the integration of Ukraine into the international community and the role of nuclear power in the energy mix of the nation today. Concluding, Ukraine´s adaptation to the new security situation after the Russian annexation of Crimea is described and discussed.
This volume is a must-read for scholars, researchers, students, and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of Ukraine's nuclear history, the political background of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, as well as of security studies and international relations in general. The work on this book has been supported by the Swedish Radiation Authority (SSM) in the Nuclear History of Ukraine Project (2015-2019).
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Polina Sinovets is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science, and Sociology of Odesa I.I. Mechnikov University, Ukraine. She is also the Head of the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation, based at Mechnikov University. She previously worked as a senior research associate at Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2006, she was a research fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Washington DC, USA; a research fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome, Italy, in 2015; and in 2017/18 a Fulbright Scholar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington DC, USA. She is an expert on nuclear weapons policy and published various articles on the topic.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ukraine’s Nuclear History
Book Subtitle: A Non-Proliferation Perspective
Editors: Polina Sinovets
Series Title: Contributions to International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90661-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90660-3Published: 14 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90663-4Published: 15 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90661-0Published: 13 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-5061
Series E-ISSN: 2731-507X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 264
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Security Studies, Military and Defence Studies, European Politics, International Relations, Nuclear Energy