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The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

The National Institute for Strategic Studies

The National Institute for Ukrainian-Russian Relations

Ukraine 2000 and Beyond:
Geopolitical Priorities
and Scenarios of Development

Kyiv - 1999

Certified for publication by the Scientific Council
of the National Institute for Strategic Studies

Edited by:

O. Belov (editor-in-chief), O. Honcharenko, N.Marchenko,
B.Parakhonsky, M.Rubanets', O.Yanishevsky

Editor of the English text: Dr. Roman Weretelnyk (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Head of the Authors' Collective - D. Sc. (History), Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS, London) O. Honcharenko

Authors -

NISS:

B.Parakhonsky, D. Sc. (Philos.)
O.Potiekhin, D. Sc. (Hist.)
E.Lysytsyn, Ph. D.
O.Manachynsky, Ph. D.
S.Nikishenko, Ph. D.
O.Strekal, Ph. D.
A.Honcharuk
V.Kuznietsov
V.Malarov
O.Parakhonska
A.Soboliev

NIURR:

R.Zhanhozha, D. Sc. (Philosophy)
V.Kuzmenko, Ph. D.

Ukraine 2000 and beyond: Geopolitical Priorities and Scenarios of Development / The monograph of the National Institute for Strategic Studies and National Institute for Ukrainian-Russian Relations. Kyiv, NISS, 1999. 384 p.

The monograph Ukraine 2000 and Beyond is a comprehensive study of possibilities and perspectives of sovereign Ukraine's interaction with international environment on global and regional levels.

The mentioned results of the research are based on the authors prior findings and are utilized for the determination of geopolitical and foreign policy priorities, and an examination of alternative scenarios necessary for the grounding of Ukraine's optimal strategies and programs of development for the future.

The monograph is aimed at a wide audience of scholars and politicians who are interested in the social and political future of Ukraine, or who are interested in the theoretical-conceptual findings apropos these questions.
© NISS, 1999.