The Moulding of Ukraine : : The Constitutional Politics of State Formation / / Kataryna Wolczuk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Wolczuk, Kataryna,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION: CONSITUTIONS 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