President Biden’s foreign policy doctrine and advancing US assistance to Ukrain

I. Dudko, Vladyslav Faraponov
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The purpose of this article is to analyze the United States’ support to Ukraine during the war with Russia, as well as in the months leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This issue remains relevant to conceptualizing US assistance to Ukraine to expel Russian forces from its territory. In particular, we claim that among other policy alternatives, the Biden administration deliberately chose to support Ukraine «for as long as it takes». Thus, we analyze the amount and comprehensiveness of support to Ukraine, which we consider to be in Washington’s core interests, as well as US efforts in terms of policy-making. The methodological design of the study is based on discourse analysis as a major method, which allowed us to examine the policy choice of the Biden administration to provide massive and comprehensive support to Ukraine in a critical time of need. When describing US assistance, we apply historical institutionalism and rational choice institutionalism as the major theoretical paradigms, as there are features of both used by the United States in its bilateral relations with Ukraine. We operate within a confirmatory research design, where the major method is hypothesis testing. The scientific novelty consists of an attempt to conceptualize the so-called Biden doctrine in the context of American assistance to Ukraine in order to sustain it in the war against Russia. We test our hypothesis on three major dimensions: the President’s authority, Congress and the U.S. leadership of NATO, and the Defense Contact Group. The authors conclude that the amount of US support to Ukraine and its comprehensiveness, particularly economic and military aid, indicate that the Biden administration viewed Ukraine as a test of its vision of foreign policy, namely that democracies should prevail over autocracies. Therefore, the unprecedented amount of aid allocated to Ukraine suggests that the support will last as long as it takes.
拜登总统的外交政策原则和推进美国对乌克兰的援助
本文的目的是分析美国在乌克兰与俄罗斯的战争期间以及俄罗斯在2022年2月全面入侵乌克兰之前的几个月里对乌克兰的支持。这个问题仍然与美国向乌克兰提供援助、将俄罗斯军队驱逐出乌克兰领土的构想有关。特别是,我们声称,在其他政策选择中,拜登政府故意选择支持乌克兰“只要需要”。因此,我们分析了对乌克兰的支持的数量和全面性,我们认为这符合华盛顿的核心利益,以及美国在决策方面的努力。本研究的方法论设计以话语分析为主要方法,考察了拜登政府在危急时刻向乌克兰提供大规模、全面支持的政策选择。在描述美国的援助时,我们采用历史制度主义和理性选择制度主义作为主要的理论范式,因为美国在与乌克兰的双边关系中使用了两者的特征。我们采用验证性研究设计,主要方法是假设检验。科学上的新奇之处在于,有人试图在美国援助乌克兰的背景下,将所谓的拜登主义概念化,以便在对抗俄罗斯的战争中支持乌克兰。我们从三个主要方面检验我们的假设:总统的权威,国会和美国在北约的领导地位,以及国防联络小组。作者得出的结论是,美国对乌克兰的支持数量及其全面性,特别是经济和军事援助,表明拜登政府将乌克兰视为对其外交政策愿景的考验,即民主应该战胜专制。因此,分配给乌克兰的前所未有的援助数额表明,这种支持将持续多久就持续多久。
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