Ukraine’s prospects for integration with the EU and NATO
Read the new UI Paper on Ukraine's western integration which explores new paths to cross-border cooperation as well as geopolitical implications of the Corona crisis. A UI Podcast is also available in which the authors discuss the paper and the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for Ukraine, in both short- and long-term perspectives.
As the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and their member states become increasingly absorbed by internal challenges, Ukraine needs to seek new paths to increase security, resilience and growth before its accession to the West’s two major multilateral organizations. An alternative way to reduce Ukraine’s current institutional isolation would be to develop more intense bilateral relations with its friendly states across the globe, notably the United States, argues Klimkin and Umland.
Klimkin, P. & Umland A. (2020) How to Progress Ukraine’s Western Integration as a Prelude to Accession to the EU and NATO, UI Paper No 4, 2020.
Authors:
Pavlo Klimkin was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in 2014–2019, and is Director of the Program on European, Regional and Russian Studies at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv.
Andreas Umland is editor of the book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society published by ibidem Press in Stuttgart, and Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague.