Keywords
Ukraine
West
NATO
European Union
How to Cite
Abstract
In this article, the author carries out a comprehensive analysis of the security policy pursued by Ukraine towards the broadly understood West. While describing the Ukrainian security policy since the state gained independence, it draws attention to both the conceptual layer (strategic documents, political declarations) and the implementation layer (the actions actually taken). The considerations in the article contain historical and comparative issues concerning the nature of the Ukrainian security policy towards the West, including towards the European Union, NATO and the United States. The theory of neoclassical realism, which is still not very popular among researchers, was applied to analyze this issue. It has a great explanatory power, because it takes into account both external aspects inherent in the international system, as well as internal ones resulting from the situation in the state itself. The aim of this article was to search for answers to the following questions: why, how and under what factors did the position of the West change in Ukraine’s security policy? As a result of the research, the hypothesis that the Ukrainian state is gradually approaching the West is confirmed, despite the inconsistency in its security policy and the West’s uncertainty as to the deepening of cooperation with it.
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