Open Ukraine; Changing Course Toward a European Future

xxxv, [1], 151, [1] pages. Footnotes. Tables. About the Authors. Ink marks to text noted. Among the topics covered are: Politics, Democracy, National Integration, National Identity, Corruption, Rule of Law, Economic Reforms, Energy Security, European Union, European Integration, and Transatlantic Integration. Among the authors represented are: Serbiy Kudelia, Olexiy Haran, Bohdan Vitvitsky, Marcin Swiecicki, Frank Umbach, Peter Balazs, and F. Stephen Larrabee. Taras Kuzio (born 1958) is a British academic and expert in Ukrainian political, economic and security affairs. As part of the CIA QRPLUMB Project, in 1986, Kuzio began compiling and translating information on current events in Soviet Ukraine and provided this information to the media through the Ukraine Press Agency (UPA) in Great Britain. In 1992-1993, Taras Kuzio worked as a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. From 1995-1998 he was a senior research fellow with the Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Birmingham in England where he completed his Ph.D. on nation and state building in Ukraine. Daniel S. Hamilton is at the Brookings Institution's Center on the United States and Europe, president of the Transatlantic Leadership Network, and co-leads "The United States, Europe, and World Order" postdoctoral program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, where he has was the Richard von Weizsäcker Professor (2003-12), the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor (2013-20), and a fellow in the Foreign Policy Institute. Leading experts and political leaders from Europe and North America explore the political, economic, and foreign policy possibilities of a more politically progressive Ukraine in the heart of Europe. They investigate the obstacles that have turned Ukraine into an immobile state and offer specific recommendations that would open Ukraine by breaking its reform logjam. Ukraine is one of Europe's biggest but poorest countries. Its territorial size, geographic position, almost 50 million population and its role as the main transit state for Russian oil and gas exports to central and western Europe make it a critical strategic factor in Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security. F. Stephen Larrabee holds the Distinguished Chair in European Security at the RAND Corporation. Before joining RAND, Larrabee served as vice president and director of studies of the Institute of East-West Security Studies in New York from 1983 to 1989. He was a distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Institute from 1989 to 1990. From 1978 to 1981, Larrabee served on the U.S. National Security Council staff in the White House as a specialist on Soviet-East European affairs and East-West political-military relations.…