Abstract
Mikhail Molchanov continues the detailed discussion of the Ukraine crisis in Chapter 10, ‘Regionalism and Multivectorism in Europe’s Borderlands: The Strange Case of Ukraine’. He demonstrates quite conclusively that Ukraine would have been much better served economically to have joined the Russian-sponsored Eurasian Union, where there were markets for its heavy industrial product. The West has done Ukraine a serious disservice by in effect forcing it to abandon a foreign economic policy that balanced relations with both Russia and the West in favour of an either-or decision. As is the case of most of the other authors, he is pessimistic about the future of both Ukraine and of Russian relations with the West.
Parts of this chapter are based on Molchanov (2016).
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Molchanov, M.A. (2017). Regionalism and Multivectorism in Europe’s Borderlands: The Strange Case of Ukraine. In: Kanet, R. (eds) The Russian Challenge to the European Security Environment . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50775-0_10
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