Regionalism and Spillover Effects: Case of Ukraine

Ukraine: Geopolitical realities and regional development perspectives

“…Stacked between such powerful external actors, the post‐Soviet states have primarily developed multi‐vector foreign policies (Gnedina, 2015). This implies building friendly relations with various external actors, and successfully managing the neighborhood (Dentinho, 2020; Malskyy et al, 2020; Pascariu et al, 2020) while ensuring none of these bilateral ties antagonizes the other external actors. For example, Ukraine has, more or less successfully managed to balance, through its multi‐vector approach, the interests of the West and Russia up until 2013, when it was forced by Moscow and Brussels to choose one of the two mutually exclusive integration projects (Rouet & Pascariu, 2019).…”