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075245
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2006.
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Kataryna Wolczuk and Taras Kuzio focus on Ukraine. Wolczuk's essay analyses the domestic political situation in post-Orange revolution Ukraine. Despite the heightened pro-European credentials of post-revolution Ukraine, Wolczuk explains how the revolution has not engendered a breakthrough in EU-Ukraine relations. This has left the new regime in Ukraine to tackle, without an EU membership perspective, formidable domestic reform challenges in the political, economic and institutional realms. This domestic quest became significantly harder in the light of divisions within the "Orange elite", the ensuing 2006 parliamentary election results, the volatile coalition politics that followed, and the new constitutional framework. Wolczuk then analyses the impact of Ukraine's changing domestic politics on EU relations. While democratic change seems irreversible and EU-Ukraine relations have undergone a visible upgrading, the country's tumultuous politics have drawn attention away from the commitment to pursue the reforms indicated in Ukraine's ENP Action Plan. They have also imbued the domestic political system with greater uncertainty and nuance as far as the country's EU orientation is concerned.
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086251
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2009.
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The article examines the impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) on domestic change in Ukraine during the period 2005-2007. Due to the interplay of external and domestic factors, no political leadership on European matters emerged in Ukraine under the ENP. The implementation of the Action Plan (AP)-the key instrument of the policy-has been left to the discretion of middle-level state officials, resulting in selective empowerment of sections of the state apparatus. However, without strong political engagement or an effective coordinating mechanism, this delivered slow, uneven and localised results. Nevertheless, despite the limited impact of the ENP, it is through the AP that the European Union has for the very first time started to affect domestic developments in Ukraine.
* The author gratefully acknowledges support from the British Academy (Grant number SG-38537) for research on Ukraine-EU relations under the European Neighbourhood Policy. She would also like to thank Tim Haughton, Iryna Solonenko, Nathaniel Copsey and Olga Shumylo for providing useful comments on the first draft of the article. Different version or sections of the article were presented at the seminar at St Anthony's College, Oxford University in January 2007, at the Wider Europe conference, European Research Institute, University of Birmingham in June 2007, the CREES Annual Conference, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, June 2007 and the ICCEES European Congress 'Transcending Europe's Borders: The EU and Its Neighbours' in Berlin in August 2007.
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