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  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
  • Maszkiewicz Mariusz
    Ucraina: el postcolonialimo soviético versus la elección europea
    in Cuadernos Manuel Giménez Abad , n. 7, junio ,  2014 ,  187-198
    This article deals with the current situation in Ukraine, under the war with Russia. A deeper lyer of this conflict should be seen not only by the prism of simple distpute of the two neighbouring countries but rather by a system of colonial and postcolonial dependences at the post-Soviet area. Significant part of the elites (mainly in Russia) did not make a settlement with communism and its ideology. During last decade awakened a longing for the revival of the empire of the shape of Soviet Union. Without Ukraine such reconstructions seems in Moscow impossible. This conflict remains somehow the war of the past and recalls Cold War. But for Ukrainians it's a hot one. Of course, the Ukrainian State may feel guilty, since after regaining independence in 1991 Kiev did not live up to the great task of cementing the nation and build civil society. Protets on Maidan in 2004 and than in the turn of 2013/2014 showed that the potential of civic socjety is enormous, however does not cover whole society. The division for two Ukraines Eastern and Western is beeing used by external enemy to dismantling the State and weakening its European aspirations. Is Ukraine come close to NATO and the EU? Or will be absorbed into a Moscow's Euroasian project? It is not going to be clear in next weeks or months. Unfortunately this process will take a long time. It seems, that during this time Western world should not remain the Ukraine and leave to itself but strongly support its development and aspirations. Full text available online at http://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/4757545.pdf Download
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