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Ukraine has faced many dilemmas and experienced numerous struggles since achieving independence from the Soviet Union in August 1991. None, however, has been as profound and fundamental to its existence as establishing a post-Soviet identity. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and discrediting of the ideology that informed Ukraine’s political, economic, and international institutions for seventy years, the immediate task was set to locate a new source of inspiration that would satisfy the young state’s needs and interests for the foreseeable future.
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Ted Hopf, “The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory,” International Security 23, no. 1 (Summer 1998): 174–75n10.
For an exceptional review and analysis of this period in the history of the CSCE, see John Maresca, To Helsinki: The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, 1973–1975 ( Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987 ).
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Mychajlyszyn, N. (2008). From Soviet Ukraine to the Orange Revolution: European Security Relations and the Ukrainian Identity. In: Schmidtke, O., Yekelchyk, S. (eds) Europe’s Last Frontier?. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10170-9_3
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