Ukraine - The Search for a National Identity (Paperback)

This comprehensive book focuses on the challenges facing Ukraine as a newly emerged state after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Like all countries with no recent history of independence, Ukraine had to invent or recreate effective political institutions, reintroduce a market economy, and reorient its foreign policy. These tasks were impossible to accomplish without resolving the question of national identity. In this balanced and clear-eyed assessment, a team of U.S. and Ukrainian specialists explores the external and internal dimensions of national identity and statehood, providing a wealth of information previously unavailable to Western scholars. Arguing that the search for national identity is a multidimensional process, the authors show that it reflects the realities of the dawning twenty-first century. Paradoxically, this quest must cope with the both the weakening of state boundaries caused by globalization and the strengthening of the national model as new countries emerge from the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. After providing the historical context of Ukraine s international debut, the book analyzes the complexities of constructing a national identity. The authors explore questions of ethnic relations and regionalism, the development of political values and attitudes, mass-elite relations, the cultural background of economic strategies, gender issues, and the threat of organized crime to emergent civil society."

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2000
First published:	November 1999
Editors:	Sharon L. Wolchik • Volodymyr Zviglyanich
Contributors:	Victor Basiuk • Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak • Janusz Bugajski • Ariel Cohen • Paula J. Dobriansky • Paul A. Goble • Oleh Havrylyshyn • Evhen I. Holovakha
Dimensions:	231 x 149 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-8476-9346-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-8476-9346-5
Barcode:	9780847693467

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!