Ukraine: evolving foreign policy in a new state.

From: World Affairs | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Armstrong, John A. | Copyright information

Ukrainians have a long history, including a heroic age centering on the Zaporozhian Cossacks of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During World War I and World War II, modern Ukrainian nationalists made valiant efforts to attain independence. During both wars, however, unrelenting pressures from Berlin and Moscow destroyed the embryonic Ukrainian states. (1) As a result, the world has perceived Ukraine as an object throughout most of the twentieth century, rather than as a pla...

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