{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503600102-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503600102-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240504,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Euromaidan","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117075964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Figures and Tables","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503600102-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503600102-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240504,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Euromaidan","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134065891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5. Corruption in Ukraine in Comparative Perspective","authors":"Daphne Athanasouli","doi":"10.1515/9781503600102-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503600102-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240504,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Euromaidan","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134646464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2. No Way Out? Post-Soviet Ukraine’s Memory Wars in Comparative Perspective","authors":"Oxana Shevel","doi":"10.1515/9781503600102-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503600102-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240504,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Euromaidan","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125544514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"11. Missing the China Exit: A World-systems Perspective on the Ukrainian State","authors":"G. Derluguian","doi":"10.1515/9781503600102-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503600102-013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240504,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Euromaidan","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129097954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"10. Oligarchs, the Partial Reform Equilibrium, and the Euromaidan Revolution","authors":"Taras Kuzio","doi":"10.1515/9781503600102-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503600102-012","url":null,"abstract":"What are oligarchs and who are the oligarchs in Ukraine? The term “oligarch” has been used since the 1990s when referring to big business tycoons and natural gas moguls in Ukraine and other post-Soviet states, frequently without citing an established definition. The key feature of oligarchs in the Ukrainian context is their penchant to become monopolists in every field where they operate: media, economy, and politics. They therefore have an intrinsically negative influence on Ukraine’s quadruple transitions of democratization, marketization, state-institution building, and national integration (Kuzio 2001). Oligarchs have benefited from maintaining the country in a “partial reform equilibrium” (Hellman 1998) at the crossroads of Eurasia and Europe. Ukraine’s oligarchs are in many ways nationalists, seeing closer ties with both Russia and the EU as leading to a decline in Ukraine’s sovereignty and therefore threats to their interests. Oligarchs prevent the emergence of a level playing field in politics by blocking the entrance of genuine political parties into the political arena. Instead, for each election cycle, they like to support disposable election vehicles, which are dubbed political “projects” by Ukrainian observers. They co-opt opposition political parties and political leaders through political corruption and finance fake candidates and parties with the sole purpose of confusing voters. Oligarchs’ control over Ukraine’s major television networks distorts the information available to voters during elections while preventing governments from explaining their reforms and policies to the public. Oligarchs typically care more about making money than ideology, and the most successful oli10 Oligarchs, the Partial Reform Equilibrium, and the Euromaidan Revolution","PeriodicalId":240504,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Euromaidan","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127947788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"7. Constitutional Performance after Communism: Implications for Ukraine","authors":"H. Hale","doi":"10.1515/9781503600102-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503600102-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240504,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Euromaidan","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129331592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781503600102-019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503600102-019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240504,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Euromaidan","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132716896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}