EUobserver: EU-Ukraine relations go from fatigue to irritation
Nicu Popescu writes:
Ukraine’s favourite foreign policy game is called ‘multi-vectorness’ – a constant process of ‘eschewing choice‘ as this recent study explained. For years Ukraine sought to extract concessions and be treated nicely by both Russia and the EU or U.S. notbecauseit was sticking to its promises, but because it played sometimes skilfully and sometimes brazenly on contradictions between external actors.
Read the full blog here.
Ukraine’s favourite foreign policy game is called ‘multi-vectorness’ – a constant process of ‘eschewing choice‘ as this recent study explained. For years Ukraine sought to extract concessions and be treated nicely by both Russia and the EU or U.S. notbecauseit was sticking to its promises, but because it played sometimes skilfully and sometimes brazenly on contradictions between external actors.
Read the full blog here.