List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

 

Preface by Margarita M. Balmaceda

1. Ukraine, Central Europe, and Russia in a New International Environment (by Margarita M. Balmaceda)

The Political and Geopolitical Context of the Triangle

Ukraine in Writings about International Relations and International Relations Theory: the State of the Literature

Ukraine, Central Europe, and Russia in Contemporary Debates on International Relations

2. The Warsaw–Kyiv–Moscow Security Triangle (by Marek Calka)

Entangled Roots

1989–92: The Two-track Policy

1992–93: Lost Opportunities?

The Period of Reappraisals: Polish–Ukrainian Relations 1994–95

Relations with Russia 1994–95

1996–97: The Building of a National Consensus on Poland’s Eastern Policy

Conclusion

Afterword

 

3. The Slovak–Ukrainian–Russian Security Triangle (by Alexander Duleba)

A Prehistory of Relations: The Split of Czechoslovakia and Slovakia’s ‘Eastern Pragmatism’

Slovakia’s Foreign Policy Concept and Current International Position: The Role of the Triangle

Slovak–Russian Relations, 1993–97

Slovak–Ukrainian Relations, 1993–97

The Pattern of Relations

Afterword

 

4. The Hungarian–Ukrainian–Russian Triangle: Not Like Rubik’s Cube (by László Póti)

From Subordination to Normalcy: Hungarian–Russian Relations, 1990–97

From Promise to Reality: Hungarian–Ukrainian Relations, 1990–97

Comparison

5. Economic Relations and the Ukrainian–Central European–Russian Triangle (by Margarita M. Balmaceda)

Introduction

Raw Materials and Energy

Russian Debts and the Means for their Settlement

Military Technology

Russian Capital in Central Europe

Trade, Free Trade Zones, and Russia’s Use of Economic Instruments

The Role of Interest Groups in the Economic Triangle

Conclusion

 

6. The Triangle with Five Sides: Patterns of Relations between Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, and Russia (by László Póti)

Introduction

Prehistory

Foreign Policy Concepts and Perceptions

Evolution of Political Relations

Patterns of Political Relations

The Security Dimension

Regional Cooperation

Domestic Context

The Minority Issue

 

7. The Ukrainian–Central European Borderland after NATO Expansion: Wall, Fortress, or Open Door? (by Margarita M. Balmaceda)

Russian–Ukrainan–Central European Relations and the European Security Question

What We Have Learned from the Triangle?

The Ukrainian–Central European Relationship after NATO and EU Expansion: New Walls or New Backdoors?

 

Index