Post-cold war ukrainian foreign policy: Kiev between East and West.

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the post-Cold War Foreign Policy of Ukraine. There appears to be a split in pro-Eastern and pro-Western approaches to the Foreign Policy making of Ukraine after the end of the Cold War. This dissertation takes into account the differences of these approaches, makes an analysis and comes to the conclusion that Ukraine’s foreign policy is influenced by the East and West, looking internally like a constant split in the public opinion and the leader’s political response after the end of the Cold War.