ABSTRACT
In this special issue a distinguished group of Canadian, Ukrainian, and American scholars examine various aspects of the Ukrainian crisis, and consider its impact on Europe. Topics include Russian narratives about Ukraine; the conflicting assumptions underlying their divergent nation-building agendas; new findings about the far right’s involvement in the Maidan protests; the Ukrainian crisis from the perspective of Western grand strategy; the security implications of Russia’s geopolitical agenda in Ukraine; the factors that contributed to the rise of separatism in Donbass; and the economic costs for Ukraine of choosing economic integration with Europe rather than Eurasia. Two persistent threads emerge throughout this discussion. The first is that the current crisis in Ukraine is much more complex than comes across in the media. The second is that since Russia and Ukraine will always be neighbors, some sort of modus vivendi between them will have to be found.
