The Eagle and the Trident: U.S.âUkraine Relations in Turbulent Times
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (722 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0815730403 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 366 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Washington also provided robust support for Ukraine’s effort to develop into a modern, democratic, market-oriented state. policies in the context of ongoing uncertainty about the political stability of Ukraine and Russia’s long-term intentions toward its smaller but important neighbor.. He also offers a practitioner’s recommendations for current U.S. But these efforts aimed at reforming the state proved only modestly successful, leaving a nation that was not resilient enough to stand up to Russian aggression in Crimea in 2014.The author reflects on what worked and what did not work in the various U.S. Steven Pifer, a career Foreign Service officer, worked on U.S.-Ukraine relations at the State Department and the White House during that period and also served as ambassador to Ukraine. approaches toward Ukraine. During the period covered by the book, the United States generally succeeded in its major goals in Ukraine, notably the safe transfer of nearly 2,000 strategic nuclear weapons left there after the Soviet collapse. With this volume he has written the definitive narrative of the ups and downs in the relationship between Washington and newly independent Ukraine.The relationship between the two countries moved from heady days in the mid- 1990s, when they declared a strategic partnership, to troubled times after 2002. An insider’s account of the complex relations between the United States and post-Soviet Ukraine
National Security Adviser. It should be an essential item in anyone’s operational library, given the high probability that Ukraine will continue to be an important issue for the United States, for East-West relations, and as a critical test of Russia’s ability to be a genuine European state.Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and former U.S. I am very much impressed by the political insights and broad historical perspective of The Eagle and the Trident