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Understanding EU Action during “Euromaidan:” Lessons for the Next Phase
Understanding EU Action during “Euromaidan:” Lessons for the Next Phase

Author(s): Anita Sobják, Roderick Parkes
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych

Summary/Abstract: During Euromaidan, a lack of cohesion between Member States left the EU pursuing a basic tipping point” approach: rather than offering Ukraine a large-scale transformation package, he EU tried to apply targeted pressure on the players involved (Moscow, Washington, kraine’s politicians and society), and to tip each onto a positive course. The approach was eak, and only last-minute political intervention from a trio of Member States prevented kraine’s wholesale descent into chaos and violent repression. Analysis of the political ynamics behind this fragmented response should, however, allow the EU to take a more oherent position, on Ukraine and in the wider region, in the future. Poland is well-placed to ead that approach.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 01-11
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English