Change of Shift
Political Metamorphoses in Ukraine

Osteuropa 2-4/2010
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel, Rainer Lindner (Ed.)
Berlin (BWV) 2010 [= Osteuropa 2-4/2010]
528 pages
Price: 32,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-1496-1

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Editorial
  Continuity and Change
• Andreas Kappeler
  Ukraine’s Historical Heritage
  Layers and Elements: An Essay
• Rainer Lindner
  Unity beyond Both Shores
  The Dniepr as National Symbol of Ukraine
• Katharina Raabe
  Cossacks or Battle Turtles
  Reading Ukraine

• The Political

• Gerhard Simon
  Democracy and Nation
  Prerequisites for Popular Government
• Ellen Bos
  Stable Instability, Dynamic Blockage
  Ukraine’s Political System und Its Defects
• Angelika Nußberger, Caroline von Gall
  Rule of Law without a Master Plan
  Law and the Judiciary in Ukraine
• Gwendolyn Sasse
  Stability through Heterogeneity
  Regional Diversity as Ukraine’s Strength
• Heiko Pleines
  Democratisation without Democrats
  The Oligarchs in Ukrainian Politics
• Andrew Wilson
  Turtles in the Twilight Zone
  Politics in Ukraine and Change
• Heike Dörrenbächer
  “The Winner Takes It All”
  The Presidential Elections and the Consequences
• Susan Stewart
  The Invisible Centre
  Regional Difference in Ukraine
• Matthias Morgner
  Need for Reform
  Communal Self-Administration in Ukraine
• Andrej Kurkov
  The Natural Laws of Ukraine
  On Politicians and Pragmatists

• The Economic

• Serhij Žadan
  Road Atlas of Ukraine
• Anders Åslund
  On the Brink
  The Ukrainian Economy in the Financial Crisis
• Petra Opitz
  Inefficient and Opaque
  The Ukrainian Energy Sector
• Simon Pirani
  Drip-Fed
  Ukraine, Russia, and Natural Gas
• Oleksandra Betlij, Lars Handrich
  Near Collapse
  The Pension and Welfare System
• Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel
  The Potential Agro-Giant
  The Agricultural Situation
• Valentin Badrak
  Export Oriented
  The Armaments Complex, Politics, and the Market
• Leonid Rudenko
  In Crisis
  The Ecological Situation in Ukraine
• Anne Wetzel
  Environmental Protection and Citizen Participation
  The Opportunities and Limitations of the Aarhus Convention

• International Relations

• Charles King
  City on the Edge
  Is Sevastopol the Next European Flashpoint?
• Petro Burkovskyj, Oleksyj Haran
  Conflict and Cooperation
  Ukraine–Russia: Relationship Dynamics
• Alena Hetmančuk
  Myths and Facts
  Ukraine and NATO
• Julia Langbein
  À la carte
  Ukrainian Positions on Free Trade with the EU
• Kai-Olaf Lang
  From Mission to Pragmatism
  Poland’s Relations with Ukraine

• Society

• Volodymyr Kulyk
  Forked Tongues
  Language and Language Policy in Ukraine
• Zaur Gasimov
  Mova and Yazyk
  The Language Issue in Ukraine
• Ėlla Libanova
  Quality Instead of Quantity
  Opportunities of Demographic Crisis
• Olena Malynovs’ka
  At the Crossroads
  Migration from, to, and through Ukraine
• Kerstin Zimmer
  Chasms and Their Causes
  Xenophobia and Rightwing Violence in Ukraine
• Vitalij Atanasov
  Construction of Myths
  On the Paradoxical Use of the Soviet Inheritance
• Karsten Hein
  In Our Midst
  Aids in Ukraine

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