Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

Author:Richard Sakwa [Sakwa, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Russia, Euromaidan, History, Current affairs, Politics, Cold War, Europe, Crimea, MH17, Vladimir Putin, Ukraine
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Published: 2014-12-17T23:00:00+00:00

The unemployed, moreover, would not enjoy visa-free travel for work purposes to the EU, while it would become more difficult to join the Russian labour market. Carden argues that the underlying premise of the EU Association Agreement, the assumption that in the early twenty-first century economics trumps politics, is flawed:

This line of thinking – call it a version of the Democratic Domino Theory – posits that as Ukraine and the other former states integrate their economies into the larger European markets they will adapt Europe’s political and cultural norms. This transformation will, in turn, influence Russia’s internal political development and it too (somehow) will Westernise through the power of example. This, it should go without saying, is a remarkably foolish way to see the world. Yet the longer American policy makers adhere to this premise, the more they will end up endangering the long-term viability of the EU.41

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