European Conflicts and International Institutions: Cooperating with Ukraine

After the recent decisions to open NATO and EU to Central and Eastern Europe Ukraine will become a direct neighbour of these important security organizations in the foreseeable future. This book is intended to contribute to a greater understanding of the significance of Ukraine for European security. The analysis is not just concerned with the questions arising from the eastward expansion of Western institutions, although this is an important question for European security. On the contrary, its focus of attention are real European conflicts and how to deal with them, which is where institutions concerned with security policy can often play a prominent role. The significance of Ukraine in this dense network of expanding institutions and real conflicts is what binds all the contributions together. In order to ground the analysis in the realities of the region, in particular experts from the region are given the opportunity to have their say.