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5 - Reform and Reversal, 2004–2010

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2023

Paul D'Anieri
Paul D'Anieri
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University of California, Riverside
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The Orange Revolution initially appeared as a victory for democracy in Ukraine and as a geopolitical victory for the West. Those two ideas – democratic revolution and geopolitics – became tightly linked in the eyes of Russian leaders, but whereas western thinkers saw democracy as fostering peace, Russia saw it as a weapon. The Orange Revolution also made Ukraine appear to be the fulcrum of security dilemma politics in central Europe. Both Russia and the West saw the other’s designs on Ukraine as threatening their security and as undermining the status quo. Meanwhile, the Orange Revolution fizzled, Viktor Yanukovych made a remarkable comeback, and Russia reasserted itself, bolstered by Putin’s popularity and by booming energy prices.

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UkraineRussiaNATOOrange RevolutionEuropean UnionBucharest summitYushchenkoPutin
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Ukraine and Russia
From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War
 , pp. 135 - 169
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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