From Servant to Leader
| Titel: | From Servant to Leader : Chronicles of Ukraine Under the Zelensky Presidency, 2019–2024 / Mykhailo Minakov ; with a foreword by John Lloyd |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Hannover : ibidem, 2025 |
| Umfang: | 281 Seiten ; 21 cm, 290 g |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Ukrainian Voices ; vol. 82 |
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| ISBN: | 9783838220024 ; 3838220021 |
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- Acknowledgments
- 11
- Foreword: The Good Servant.
- 13
- Introduction
- 19
- I.1
- Servant
- 23
- The start of the presidential electoral campaign in 2019
- 23
- Debates on war and peace in the presidential elections of 2019
- 27
- Results of the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections
- 32
- Expectations from the newly elected President Zelensky
- 35
- I.2
- Winner
- 41
- Delayed start of Zelensky's presidency
- 41
- Parliamentary elections and political cleavages in Ukraine of the 2019 summer
- 45
- President Zelensky establishes one-party majority
- 49
- I.3
- Reformer
- 53
- The first Zelensky's reforms and challenge for checks and balances
- 53
- Zelensky's Achievements after the first six months in power
- 57
- Zelensky meets Putin in Paris
- 64
- Political struggle and media wars in the winter of 2019-2020
- 68
- II
- Master
- 73
- New Zelensky's administration: arrival of Yermak and Shmyhal
- 73
- Zelensky's version of perestroika and the oligarchs
- 78
- Ukraine's politics in the fall of 2020
- 82
- President Zelensky's personnel problem
- 87
- Ukraine's politics in the first half of 2021
- 90
- Zelensky's presidency at the two-year mark
- 96
- Zelensky starts the fight against oligarchs
- 103
- Waiting for the storm? Ukraine's political situation before the autumn of 2021
- 108
- Three decades of Ukraine's independence: outcomes so far
- 113
- The Afghanistan Syndrome and US-Ukraine Relations
- 118
- Growing disenchantment with President Zelensky
- 124
- Expectations from Ukraine's political processes in the beginning of 2022
- 129
- Separatists threaten Ukrainian sovereignty
- 135
- III
- Leader
- 139
- The start of the Russian war on Ukraine
- 139
- First attempts of Ukraine-Russia talks
- 143
- Zelensky versus Putin: the personality factor in Russia's war on Ukraine
- 149
- The Kremlin's secessionist plans put Ukrainian statehood at risk
- 152
- The first two months of the big war in Ukraine
- 156
- Ukraine's government tries to balance military and socioeconomic needs
- 159
- Ukraine becomes EU member candidate
- 165
- Ukraine's wartime political struggle continues with a new twist
- 169
- The Russian annexation of Southeastern Ukraine
- 172
- The war changes the Ukrainian oligarchy
- 176
- Violent referendum in occupied territories of Southeastern Ukraine
- 181
- Ukraine in center of the militarist remapping of Europe and Northern Eurasia
- 185
- Further problems for Ukrainian oligarchs
- 189
- Fighting corruption in wartime Ukraine
- 192
- Further steps with Ukraine's EU membership goals in 2023
- 198
- Ukraine's historical moment a year after the start of the war
- 203
- The wartime constitutional process
- 207
- Political struggle in the first half of 2023
- 212
- The paradox of deoligarchization in post-Soviet Ukraine
- 216
- Ukraine and the rise of the middle powers in the global interstate system
- 220
- Russian local "elections" in the occupied Ukrainian territories
- 224
- Pros and cons of elections in wartime Ukraine
- 228
- Ukrainian society on the anniversary of twin tragedies
- 240
- The Ukrainian military assistance is finally approved by the US Congress
- 245
- Five years of Zelensky's presidency
- 248
- Ukrainian politics reacts to the US electoral drama
- 253
- Zelensky's six Independence Day speeches as milestones of his presidency
- 258
- Epilogue: The Three Ages of Zelensky's Presidency
- 265
- Key Literature and Sources
- 271
