Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Ukraine Crisis and Post-Post-Cold War Europe 2. The Maidan in Movement: Diversity and the Cycles of Protest 3. National Identity in Ukraine: Impact of Euromaidan and the War 4. The Ukrainian Party System before and after the 2013-2014 Euromaidan 5. The Donbas in 2014: Explaining Civil Conflict Perhaps, but not Civil War 6. A Perfect Storm; Or What Went Wrong and What Went Right for the EU in Ukraine 7. German Foreign Policy towards Russia in the Aftermath of the Ukraine Crisis: A New Ostpolitik? 8. Between Dependence and Integration: Ukraine’s Relations With Russia 9. The Ukraine Conflict: Russia’s Challenge to European Security Governance 10. Russia’s ‘Governance’ Approach: Intervention and the Conflict in the Donbas 11. The Empire Strikes Back: Economic Statecraft and the Securitisation of Political Economy in Russia 12. Sanctions and the Future of EU-Russian Economic Relations

About the Author

Derek Averre is a Reader and former Director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Russian foreign/security policy specialist with 25 years’ experience in the field.


Kataryna Wolczuk is Professor of East European Politics at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.