Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament

A History
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-674-24930-1
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 78, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 262 mm, Gewicht: 890 g

Reihe: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies

In December 1994, Ukraine gave up the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, having received assurances that its sovereignty would be respected and secured by Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Based on original and heretofore unavailable documents, Yuri Kostenko’s account of the negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, and the US reveals for the first time the internal debates of the Ukrainian government as well as the pressure exerted upon it by its international partners. Kostenko presents an insider’s view on the issue of nuclear disarmament and raises the question of whether the complete and immediate dismantlement of the country’s enormous nuclear arsenal was strategically the right decision, especially in view of the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, one of the guarantors of Ukraine’s sovereignty under denuclearization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kostenko, Yuri

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wolanskyj, Lidia

Krasynska, Svitlana

Jennings, Olena

D’Anieri, Paul J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Moderne Kriegsführung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Ausrüstung & Waffen

Über Autor(innen)

Kostenko, Yuri
Yuri Kostenko is a politician and leader of the Ukrainian People’s Party. From 1990 to 2014 he was a member of the parliament of Ukraine and from 1992 to 1998 held cabinet ministerships with portfolios governing environmental protection and nuclear safety. Kostenko was a top-level representative of Ukraine in the negotiations with the Western powers and Russia on the denuclearization of Ukraine in the 1990s.

Krasynska, Svitlana
Svitlana Krasynska is an interdisciplinary scholar studying civil society developments in contemporary Ukraine with nearly two decades of executive, consulting, and research experience in the nonprofit sector. She is the coeditor of <i>The Nonprofit Sector in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia: Civil Society Advances and Challenges</i> and the editor of <i>Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History</i> by Yuri Kostenko.