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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349480403321

Autore

Wolczuk Kataryna

Titolo

The moulding of Ukraine : the constitutional politics of state formation / / by Kataryna Wolczuk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest, Hungary ; ; New York, N.Y., : Central European University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-003-72281-4

2-8218-1510-7

0-585-45517-1

615-5211-64-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

342.477

Soggetti

Constitutional law - Ukraine

Constitutional history - Ukraine

Ukraine Politics and government 1991-2014

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-309) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Tables -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter one. Introduction: constitutions and statehood -- Chapter two. In search of a tradition: discontinuities of statehood in Ukraine’s history -- Chapter three. Independence without a vision: constitution making in 1990–1991 -- Chapter four. Simulating reforms amidst constitutional disarray: Ukraine under Kravchuk’s presidency -- Chapter five. How to organise the state? Constitutional debates after the 1994 elections -- Chapter six. The passage of the constitution: process, actors, and strategies -- Chapter seven. Ukraine as a nation-state: the conception of statehood in the 1996 constitution -- Chapter eight. Ukraine under the new constitution: the anatomy of a crisis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a number of new states were created that had little or no claim to any previous existence. Ukraine is one of the countries that faced not only political, social and economic transformation, but also state formation and the redefinition of national identity. This book uses Ukraine as a case study in trying to



trace the key moments of decision making in the course of creating a new state while shedding the legacies of "Soviet-type" statehood. The Moulding of Ukraine offers a systematic examination of competing ideological visions of statehood and discusses them against the backdrop of historical traditions in Ukraine. This well-documented and lucidly written book is the only coherent account available in English of the process of constitutional reform, offering an insight into post-Soviet Ukrainian politics. A useful addition to university course reading lists in Ukrainian studies, post-Soviet studies, post-communist democratization, comparative constitutionalism, state-building and institutional design. © Central European University Press, 2001