Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine. Selected Essays 1990–2015.

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List of Tables ......................................................................................... 9
Acknowledgements............................................................................ 11
Abbreviations ...................................................................................... 13
Foreword by John-Paul Himka ......................................................... 15
Ukraine: The Issue of National Self-determination..................... 21
The political terrain ..................................................................... 24
The republican elections ............................................................. 29
The issues ...................................................................................... 31
The Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections in March–April 1994 ... 37
The election law ........................................................................... 40
The contestants............................................................................. 44
The election campaign ................................................................ 45
The results..................................................................................... 52
Analysis of results ....................................................................... 53
Conclusions .................................................................................. 64
Leonid Kuchma’s Presidency in Its First Year .............................. 69
Conclusion .................................................................................... 89
The Ukrainian Economy since Independence .............................. 91
Features of the economic decline ............................................... 92
Foreign trade ................................................................................ 97
The Soviet inheritance ................................................................. 99
Agriculture .......................................................................... 100
Fuel and energy.................................................................. 103
Industry ............................................................................... 109
The costs of separation .............................................................. 114
The costs of transition ............................................................... 117
The commercial banks....................................................... 117
Trusts and other financial intermediaries ...................... 122
Capital accumulation through trade ............................... 1246
Land privatisation.............................................................. 126
Privatisation of industry, trade and services ................. 131
How much has been privatised? ..................................... 140
The impact of privatisation on economic performance .. 141
The economy in the shadows ........................................... 144
Implications for the state building process ............................ 150
Russia, Ukraine and European Integration ................................. 153
Russia’s and Ukraine’s experience with democratisation
and the market ........................................................................... 154
Ukraine, the EU and NAТО ..................................................... 156
Russia, the EU and NATO ........................................................ 162
The interdependence of Russia and Ukraine ......................... 168
The end of Ukraine’s “European choice”? ............................. 170
And the beginning of а new phase in Russia-Ukraine-EU
relations? ..................................................................................... 177
The European Union’s Perspective on the Ukrainian-
Russian Border .................................................................................. 179
Migration and settlement ......................................................... 179
Immigration policy, strategy and instruments of the
European Union ......................................................................... 182
The IOM and the EU on the Ukrainian-Russian border ....... 188
Do Ukraine and Russia agree with the EU’s objectives? ...... 191
Conclusions ................................................................................ 194
Trade, Investment and Debt: Ukraine’s Integration into
World Markets .................................................................................. 197
The state and capitalist development in Ukraine .................. 198
The former Soviet bloc enters the world market ................... 201
Ukraine enters the world economy ......................................... 205
Trade............................................................................................ 207
Investment .................................................................................. 211
Debt and the international financial crisis of 1997–98 .......... 213
Conclusion .................................................................................. 2167
The Ukrainian Economy and the International Financial Crisis ... 219
The course of the crisis .............................................................. 220
The government’s response ..................................................... 223
Kuchma’s strategy of development......................................... 231
From the Orange revolution to the international
financial crisis ............................................................................. 240
Conclusion .................................................................................. 244
Origins of the Ukrainian Crisis ..................................................... 249
The fragility of the Ukrainian state ......................................... 250
The international isolation of the Ukrainian state ................. 251
The revival of Russian imperialism......................................... 253
The Yanukovych presidency .................................................... 255
The economy .............................................................................. 258
Trade............................................................................................ 259
Investment .................................................................................. 260
Debt ............................................................................................. 261
Labour migration ....................................................................... 263
The zero-sum choice .................................................................. 263
The Maidan................................................................................. 267
The pivotal moment .................................................................. 269
A coup? ....................................................................................... 272
A fascist junta? ........................................................................... 273
The Ukrainian crisis internationalised .................................... 274
Russia’s timing and calculations ............................................. 277
Into the arms of the Western powers ...................................... 278
The balance of power ................................................................ 280
Conclusions ................................................................................ 282
Index ................................................................................................... 2859
List of Tables
Table 1: Results of the Ukrainian parliamentary elections
March–April 1994 ............................................................... 55
Table 2: Occupational distribution of 163 elected deputies
formally registered as independent candidates ............. 62
Table 3: Regional GDP per capita as a percentage of the
“leading nation” (Great Britain in 1870 and 1900;
USA in 1913 and thereafter). ........................................... 204
Table 4: Ukraine 2000–2009: Selected indicators of economic
growth ................................................................................ 236