Vadym Karasiov

The scenario of accelerated European integration, whereby Ukraine would drift away from Moscow and follow in the footsteps of Poland or the Baltic nations, is not adequate for the country’s size, potential, or ambitions of the domestic business community. The first months under the new leadership...

In the early 1920s Berlin saw the release of a book now deliberately forgotten, which was written by a world-famous philosopher, who spoke about the start of a new epoch in the development of mankind — an epoch of religious or ideological wars and a return to barbarism and medieval cruelty. The...

The coming elections will be nationwide, but the next president will not be one elected nationwide; rather someone representing a certain political force, a group of forces, parties, and business elite. Future historians will probably describe the early months of 2004 as a historic period that...

CRISIS OF NATION-STATES We are witness to the degradation of national (Westphalian) sovereignties, but this does not mean that new organized sovereignties are not emerging in the form of postnational global powers, supranational regions, and regional superpowers. Events in Iraq, the Near and...

The presidential decree to subject the bill On Amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine to a nationwide referendum has aroused much speculation and criticism. The broad consensus on the need for a transformation of the political system into a parliamentary republic, revision of the...

A noted regional leader appointed as premier, the regional elite mounting pressure on the national policy as a number of resourceful, well provided for, and consolidated political communities once again bring the center- region problem into the limelight. The relationships between the center...

The conceptual linchpin of the political season just begun is again the modernization of the system of governance in Ukraine. The presidentially sponsored project of political reforms pivots on the idea of establishing parliamentary democracy or a parliamentary-style republic. Political scientists...

The effectiveness of the Ukrainian political system has long caused much discussion. The shortcomings peculiar to the post-Soviet democracies are the reason for the instability of election campaigns, confrontation between the legislative and executive branches, and weak linkage with executive...

The CIS jubilee summit is over. President Vladimir Putin of Russia, addressing the final press conference, called upon his counterparts to raise the true effectiveness of the CIS, to establish trouble-free coordination within it. He also said it was necessary to conduct a real, not declarative,...

What will come of the new elections bill is a crucial issue in many respects. The struggle for a new electoral system (whereby votes are converted into mandates [seats in the parliament]) took place in the legal domain and at the level of political party strategies behind and over which stood...