Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament : : A History / / Yuri Kostenko; ed. by Svitlana Krasynska.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Kostenko, Yuri,
• MitwirkendeR: D’Anieri, Paul J.,; Jennings, Olena,; Wolanskyj, Lidia,
• HerausgeberIn: Krasynska, Svitlana,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies ; 78
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

In December 1994 Ukraine gave up the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, having received assurances that its sovereignty would be respected and secured by Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Based on original and heretofore unavailable documents, Yuri Kostenko’s account of the negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, and the US, reveals for the first time the internal debates of the Ukrainian government, as well as the pressure exerted upon it by its international partners. Kostenko presents an insider’s view on the issue of nuclear disarmament and raises the question of whether the complete and immediate dismantlement of the country’s enormous nuclear arsenal was strategically the right decision, especially in view of the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, one of the guarantors of Ukraine’s sovereignty under denuclearization.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Author’s Note -- Chapter 1. An Infant in a Grownups’ Game -- Chapter 2. Ukraine Formulates Its Position on Nuclear Arms -- Chapter 3. Breakthrough -- Chapter 4. The Hawks’ Victory -- Chapter 5. Going into Reverse -- Chapter 6. Capitulation -- Appendices -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index