Oligarchs in Ukrainian Foreign Policymaking: Examining Influences in Transnational Politics
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Lidiya Zubytska
Lidiya Zubytska native to Lviv, Ukraine, focuses her research on domestic factors shaping foreign policy choices in states undergoing political transition. In particular, she studies how party politics, economic reforms and social movements impact foreign policymaking in transitional post-Soviet states. She has co-authored publications on Russia’s foreign policy quest for a unique place in the world, as well as on the role of regional organizations in the post-Soviet space. Lidiya Zubytska holds a Doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Kansas, and a Master’s degree in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to her academic path in the US, she taught at the Ukrainian Catholic University and worked on administrative reform in the Ukrainian government after the Orange revolution.
Abstract
In this research I argue that the oligarchic interests in Ukraine are key components in understanding how Ukraine’s leaders built the country’s foreign relations with the EU and Russia in the post-Orange revolution period, under the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko and in the first two years of Viktor Yanukovych, from 2005 to 2012. The uncertainty of the Ukrainian political transition put distinct constraints on its political actors and prompted them to rely on economic elites rather than voters to secure personal political gains, thereby opening the foreign policy decision-making process to the interests of oligarchs who stood behind the two presidents.
About the author
Lidiya Zubytska native to Lviv, Ukraine, focuses her research on domestic factors shaping foreign policy choices in states undergoing political transition. In particular, she studies how party politics, economic reforms and social movements impact foreign policymaking in transitional post-Soviet states. She has co-authored publications on Russia’s foreign policy quest for a unique place in the world, as well as on the role of regional organizations in the post-Soviet space. Lidiya Zubytska holds a Doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Kansas, and a Master’s degree in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to her academic path in the US, she taught at the Ukrainian Catholic University and worked on administrative reform in the Ukrainian government after the Orange revolution.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Abhandlungen
- Friends or Foes of Transformation? Economic Elites in Post-Soviet Ukraine – an Introduction
- Oligarchs in Ukrainian Foreign Policymaking: Examining Influences in Transnational Politics
- Sustaining Business-State Symbiosis in Times of Political Turmoil: the Case of Ukraine 2007-2018
- The Business-superman: Oligarchs Justifying Giving in Post-Soviet Ukraine
- Global Arms Production and Ukraine’s Unpredictable Soviet Inheritance
- Forschungs- und Literaturberichte
- Die Rübenzuckerindustrie im Süd-Westen des Zarenreiches und die neuen Agrareliten
- Necessity or Luxury? Welfare Work in the Company Towns of the Russian Empire
- The Importance of Connections: The Rise of Jewish Business Elites in Galicia
- Handlungsspielräume in der Befehlswirtschaft – Die Hüttenwerke in der Ukraine unter deutscher Besatzung
- Preis für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- The Political Role of Business Magnates in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Abhandlungen
- Friends or Foes of Transformation? Economic Elites in Post-Soviet Ukraine – an Introduction
- Oligarchs in Ukrainian Foreign Policymaking: Examining Influences in Transnational Politics
- Sustaining Business-State Symbiosis in Times of Political Turmoil: the Case of Ukraine 2007-2018
- The Business-superman: Oligarchs Justifying Giving in Post-Soviet Ukraine
- Global Arms Production and Ukraine’s Unpredictable Soviet Inheritance
- Forschungs- und Literaturberichte
- Die Rübenzuckerindustrie im Süd-Westen des Zarenreiches und die neuen Agrareliten
- Necessity or Luxury? Welfare Work in the Company Towns of the Russian Empire
- The Importance of Connections: The Rise of Jewish Business Elites in Galicia
- Handlungsspielräume in der Befehlswirtschaft – Die Hüttenwerke in der Ukraine unter deutscher Besatzung
- Preis für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- The Political Role of Business Magnates in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
