Historical, Ideological and Political Origins of the Current Geopolitical View of the Ukrainian Elite
Historical, Ideological and Political Origins of the Current Geopolitical View of the Ukrainian Elite

Summary/Abstract: The article engages with the dilemma of the Ukrainian foreign policy and its civilizational choice. At present, under the deep Ukrainian crisis, the Russian political elite is attempting to stop the reduction of its sphere of influence in the post-Soviet space. In the near future, the issue of interaction between the Russian and the Ukrainian elites will get into the discursive window based on the ideological legacy of the Ukrainian political thought of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is related to the future development of Ukraine in the face of the weakening of the Russian imperial center. Upon the methodology of geopolitical approach and discourse analysis, three pillars of the Ukrainian political thought of the period – pro-Russian (Drahomanov, Lypynsky, Hrushevsky), pro-Western (Lypa, Rudnyckyj, Zhuk) and autochthonous (Syniavskyi) are analyzed and seen as an entry point for the beginning of the normalization of the bilateral Russian-Ukrainian relations.

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