Abstract
Ukraine has been an active participant in NATO partnership activities almost since the country became independent in 1991. The intensity of Ukraine’s cooperation with NATO increased markedly throughout the 1990s, and even more after Ukraine’s announcement in June 2003 of its ambition for NATO membership. While the motives behind both the partnership and membership policies are numerous and complex, the main argument of this chapter is that Ukraine’s desire to build a strong European identity is the most important. Thus, in terms of the scholarly debate on the sources of states’ foreign policies, this study provides empirical evidence in support of the constructivist claim that states’ identities have significant explanatory power (on this claim, see for example Wendt, 1999, especially pp. 231–3; Katzenstein, 1996, chapters 2, 8, 9, 10 and 11; Ashizawa, 2008, pp. 571–98; Checkel, 1993, pp. 271–300).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Bibliography
Ashizawa, K. (2008) ‘When Identity Matters: State Identity, Regional Institution-Building, and Japanese Foreign Policy’, International Studies Review, Vol. 10, pp. 571–98.
Badrak, V. (2002) ‘Dilemmy oboronnogo planirovania’, Defense Express News, 2 February 2002.
Badrak, V. (2004) ‘Generaly-strelochniki: voennoe vedomstvo riskuiet ostatsia bez kadrov’, Defense Express News, 27 May 2004.
Badrak, V. (2008) ‘Dlia igry po yevropeiskym pravylam neobkhodymo adaptyrovat natsionalnoe zakonodatelstvo’ in S. G. Zhurets, V. V. Badrak, M. M. Samus, O. O. Nabochenko, V. I. Kopchak, A. A. Kramar and I. S. Riabchyi (eds) Ukrayina-Nato: Oboronno-Promyslova Perspektyva (Kiev: Defense Express Library).
Bogdanov, D. (2009) ‘Kompleks “oboronki” Ukrainskii OPK: tsifry, fakty, tendentsii’, Defense Express, April.
Borisov, Y. (2008) ‘Standarty Nato — ne samotsel, a progressivnyi shag k razvitiu nashei promyshlennosti, nauki I tekhniki’ in S. G. Zhurets, V. V. Badrak, M. M. Samus, O. O. Nabochenko, V. I. Kopchak, A. A. Kramar and I. S. Riabchyi (eds) Ukrayina-Nato: Oboronno-Promyslova Perspektyva (Kiev: Defense Express Library).
Bukkvoll, T. (2002) ‘Defining a Ukrainian Foreign Policy Identity: Business Interests and Geopolitics in the Formation of Ukrainian Foreign Policy 1994–1999’ in T. Kuzio, J. Moroney and M. Molchanov (eds) Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policy — Theoretical and Comparative Prespectives (Westport: Praeger Publishers), pp. 131–53.
Bukkvoll, Tor and Koren, Knut Magnus (2007) Military Reform in Ukraine 2000–2007, http://rapporter.ffi.no/rapporter/2007/02192.pdf, date accessed 22 March 2010.
Bondarchuk, S. (2008) ‘Ukraina mogla by znachitelno rasshirit svoi vozmozhnosti postavshchika oruzhia za schet primenenia offsetnykh soglashenii’ in S. G. Zhurets, V. V. Badrak, M. M. Samus, O. O. Nabochenko, V. I. Kopchak, A. A. Kramar and I. S. Riabchyi (eds) Ukrayina-Nato: Oboronno-Promyslova Perspektyva (Kiev: Defense Express Library).
Checkel, J. (1993) ‘Ideas, Institutions, and the Gorbachev Foreign Policy Revolution’, World Politics, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 271–300.
Chernyshov, Oleg, Adams, Barry, Glover, Stephen, Greene, James and Kovalenko, Hennadiy (2007) Ministry of Defence White Book 2006 — Defence Policy of Ukraine (Kiev: Ministry of Defence of Ukraine).
Geda, E. (2009) ‘Ukraina ne proshla voennoiu podgotovku’, Kommersant-Ukrainy, 4 August 2009.
Horbulin, V. (2005) ‘Perevooruzhenie vooruzhennykh sil Ukrainy i strategia sderzhivania’, Defense Express, December.
Horbulin, V. (2007) ‘Ukrayina-Nato: Stahnatsiia chy povilna intehratsiia’, Stratehichni priorytety, No. 2.
Kastelli, V., Green, J., Jones, D., Balabin, V., Melnik, O., Sungurovskiy, M. and Chernyshov, O. (2006) Ministry of Defence White Book 2006 — Defence Policy of Ukraine (Kiev: Ministry of Defence of Ukraine).
Katzenstein, P. J. (ed.) (1996) The Culture of National Security (New York: Columbia University Press).
Kiev International Institute for Sociology: Poll from February 2002, http://www.kiis.com.ua/db/index.php#5, date accessed 22 March 2010.
Kulyk, V. (2009) ‘Mosty kvitiv pidirvani…Ale vidnovlenniu pidliahaiut’, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, 13–20 April 2009.
Kucherk, V. (2009) ‘Viktor Yushchenko dal otsrochku’, Kommersant-Ukrainy, 12 January 2009.
Party Program, Mizhnarodna Bezpeka, http://yanukovych.com.ua/program party.html, date accessed 22 December 2009.
Pavlenko, A. (2003) ‘Voennaia demokratia ili o kadrovykh problemakh reformirovania armii’, Defense Express News, 1 October 2003.
‘Pro stratehiiu mizhnarodnoyi diialnosti Ukrayiny’, http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?part=peacekeeping&lang=ua&sub=435_2009, date accessed 3 February 2010.
Razumkov Centre: ‘How Would You Vote If the Referendum on Ukraine’s Nato Accession Was Held the Following Sunday?’, http://www.uceps.org/eng/poll.php?poll_id=46, date accessed 22 March 2010.
Rossia: ‘Sokhranim i Priumnozhim! — Programmnyi Dokument Partii Edinaia Rossia’, http://edinros.ru/er/text,shtml?10/9535,110030, date accessed 22 December 2009.
Sakovskyi, G. A. (2005) ‘Vtilennia suchasnykh pryntsypiv viiskovoho budi-vnytstva v Zbroinykh sylakh Ukrayiny u protsesi yikh reformuvannia’ in O. S. Bodruk (ed.) Aktualni Problemy Reformuvannia Sfery Bezpeky I Oborony Ukrayiny (Kiev: Logos).
Samus, M. (2009) ‘Si Briz kak diagnos’, Defense Express News, 1 July 2009.
Sedov, L. (2009) ‘Tradition Breaks Reform’, Russia in Global Affairs, No. 4, October-December, http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/numbers/29/1315.html, date accessed 22 March 2010.
Shekhovtsov, V. (2008) ‘Rynkova transformatsiia OPK Ukrayiny ta yevroat-lantychna intehratsiia’, Defense Express News, 13 June 2008.
Sherr, J. (2002) ‘Country Briefing: Ukraine: A State of Reform’, fane’s Defence Weekly, 10 July 2002.
Silina, Tetiana (2006) ‘A kurs yakshcho ye, to yoho vidrazu nemaie… pro naslidky kompromisiv u teksti universalu’, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, 16–22 September 2006.
Spero, J. B. (2002) ‘The Polish-Ukrainian Interstate Model for Cooperation and Integration: Regional Relations in a Theoretical Context’ in T. Kuzio, J. Moroney and M. Molchanov (eds) Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policy — Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Westport: Praeger Publishers), pp. 155–77.
‘Spivrobnitstvo Ukrayiny z Nato — Vidnosyny Ukrayina-Nato v tsifrakh I faktakh’, http://www.mil.gov.ua, date accessed 21 November 2009.
‘Stavlennia viiskovosluzhbovtsiv I tsyvilnoho personalu tsentralnoho aparatu ministerstva oborony Ukrayiny, Heneralnoho Shtabu Zbroinykh syl Ukrayiny ta Natsionalnoyi Akademiyi Oborony Ukrayiny do yevroat-lantichnoyi intehratsiyi Ukrayiny’, Tsentr Voennoyi Polityky ta Polityky Bezpeky, http://defpol.org.ua/site/index.php/uk/2009-09-10-14-29-32/166-2009-09-11-05-15-02, date accessed 20 December 2009.
‘The Basis of Byut Foreign Policy’, http://wwwibyut.com/platform.html, date accessed 16 December 2009.
‘The History of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Peacekeeping Operations’, http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php, date accessed 16 December 2009.
Tsymbaliuk, R. (2006) ‘Ukrainskoe mirotvorchestvo. realii i perspektivy’, Defense Express News, 29 August 2006.
Tsytsiurskii, M. (2008) ‘Viiskova transformatsia Zbroinykh syl Ukrayiny’ in S. G. Zhurets, V. V. Badrak, M. M. Samus, O. O. Nabochenko, V. I. Kopchak, A. A. Kramar and I. S. Riabchyi (eds) Ukrayina-Nato: Oboronno-Promyslova Perspektyva (Kiev: Defense Express Library).
‘Ukraina mozhet gorditsia svoimi vooruzhennymi silami — Zamestitel Genseka Nato John Colston’, Defense Express News, 10 July 2007.
Ukrainian State Committee of Statistics, http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/, date accessed 22 December 2009.
Ukrayinska Pravda (2010a) ‘Yanukovych vidstoronyvsia vid Nato i vziav kurs na ES’, 12 January 2010.
Ukrayinska Pravda (2010b) ‘Nato Vizme Ukrayinu V Svoyi Syly’, 20 January 2010.
Vedernikova, Inna (2009) ‘Anatolii Hrytsenko: Kerivnyky krayiny novynni dyvytysia u vikno i bachyt svit’, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, 24–30 October 2009.
Wendt, A. (1999) Social Theory of International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Woronowycz, R. (2001) ‘Ukraine’s Troops Play Key Role in Peacekeeping Operations’, The Ukrainian Weekly, 7 January 2001.
Woronowycz, R. (2003) ‘Rada OKs Ukrainian Troops for Iraq’, The Ukrainian Weekly, 8 June 2003.
Yekhanurov, Y. (2008) ‘Voenno-politychnyi vymir transformatsii Zbroinykh syl Ukrayiny’ in S. G Zhurets, V. V. Badrak, M. M. Samus, O. O. Nabochenko, V. I. Kopchak, A. A. Kramar and I. S. Riabchyi (eds) Ukrayina-Nato: Oboronno-Promyslova Perspektyva (Kiev: Defense Express Library).
Zhurets, S. G., Badrak, V. V., Samus, M. M., Nabochenko, O. O., Kopchak, V. I., Kramar, A. A. and Riabchyi, I. S. (eds) (2008) Ukrayina-Nato: Oboronno-Promyslova Perspektyva (Kiev: Defense Express Library).
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2011 Tor Bukkvoll
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Bukkvoll, T. (2011). Political and Military Utility of NATO for Ukraine. In: Edström, H., Matlary, J.H., Petersson, M. (eds) NATO: The Power of Partnerships. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297500_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297500_5
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-32423-1
Online ISBN: 978-0-230-29750-0
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)