This comprehensive book focuses on the challenges facing Ukraine as a newly emerged state after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Like all countries with no recent history of independence, Ukraine had to invent or recreate effective political institutions, reintroduce a market economy, and reorient its foreign policy. These tasks were impossible to accomplish without resolving the question of national identity. In this balanced and clear-eyed assessment, a team of U.S. and Ukrainian specialists explores the external and internal dimensions of national identity and statehood, providing a wealth of information previously unavailable to Western scholars.

Part 1 Emergent Ukraine Chapter 2 Introduction: The Ambiguities of National Identity: The Case of Ukraine Chapter 3 Nation-Building and Foreign Policy Chapter 4 Ukraine: Towards a Viable National Ethos Chapter 5 The Political Economy of Delayed Reform in Ukraine Chapter 6 Ukraine as a Military Power Chapter 7 Ukraine's Russian Dilemma and Europe's Evolving Geography Chapter 8 Establishing Independence in an Interdependent World Chapter 9 U.S.-Ukranian Relations, 1991-97: A View from Washington Chapter 10 Ukraine's Relations with the Visegrád Countries Part 11 Problems of Domestic Nation Building Chapter 12 Ethnic Relations and Regional Problems in Independent Ukraine Chapter 13 Regionalism: An Underestimated Dimension of State-Building Chapter 14 Popular Social and Political Attitudes in Ukraine Chapter 15 Establishing Representation: Mass and Elite Political Attitudes in the Ukraine Chapter 16 The State and Economic Reform in the Ukraine: Ideas, Models, Solutions Chapter 17 Women's Organizations in Independent Ukraine, 1990-98 Chapter 18 Ukranian and Russian Organized Crime: A Threat to Emerging Civil Society Chapter 19 About the Contributors

Sharon Wolchik is professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University. Volodymyr Zviglyanich is senior fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Kyiv and adjunct professor and research associate at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the George Washington University.