Center for Security Studies

More Stick, Less Carrot: Russia’s Policy Towards Ukraine Following Recent Events

More Stick, Less Carrot: Russia’s Policy Towards Ukraine Following Recent Events

Author(s): Arkady Moshes
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 146
Pages: 2-3
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2014

It was widely believed in Western analytical circles that Ukraine’s choice about whether or not to accede to the Russia-led Customs Union (CU) would be a key factor defining the success or failure of Eurasian integration, in both economic and geopolitical terms. The current crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations will soon reveal whether this assumption was right or wrong.

Download:

JavaScript has been disabled in your browser