Publication

This publication discusses the growth of political conflict within Ukraine over foreign policy between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The author argues that Yanukovych's wish to peruse a multi-vector foreign policy which concentrates on improving relations NATO is strengthened by Russia's use of the gas price as a lever to extract strategic concessions. The publication concludes that the political disagreements between the president and prime minister could prove beneficial to the process of democratization in Ukraine and produce a more interest-based and less regional pattern of political alignment.