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The rule of law in contemporary Ukraine: widespread elite failure puts reforms at risk

Die heutige Ukraine und der Rechtsstaat: weitgehendes Eliteversagen stellt die Reformen in Frage
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Stewart, Susan

Corporate Editor
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit

Abstract

Ukraine's Euromaidan protest movement, which brought about the fall of President Yanukovych in 2014, has led to a comprehensive process of reforms. However, this process is being hampered and delayed by a large number of internal and external hurdles. There are particularly significant obstacles to ... view more

Ukraine's Euromaidan protest movement, which brought about the fall of President Yanukovych in 2014, has led to a comprehensive process of reforms. However, this process is being hampered and delayed by a large number of internal and external hurdles. There are particularly significant obstacles to establishing a state governed by the rule of law. Preserving areas in which a legal vacuum exists is in the interests of influential political and economic actors because such areas contribute to their personal enrichment and help maintain their power. It is therefore important to examine the progress that has been made and the hurdles that have been encountered in establishing the rule of law. Such an analysis can help German and European actors to take well-founded decisions on how to support Ukraine's moves towards rule-of-law structures more effectively than they have in the past. (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
Ukraine; political reform; economic reform; reform policy; constitutional state; political development; political power; securing of power; political elite; law reform; USSR successor state

Classification
Political System, Constitution, Government

Document language
English

Publication Year
2016

City
Berlin

Page/Pages
8 p.

Series
SWP Comment, 10/2016

ISSN
1861-1761

Status
Published Version; reviewed

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications


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