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Geopolitical Implications and Challenges of the Coronavirus Crisis for Ukraine

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  • Pavlo Klimkin
  • Andreas Umland

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Among various geopolitical repercussions of the COVID‐19 pandemic are redefinitions of the short‐term priorities of many international organizations. Among others, the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are becoming absorbed by new internal challenges, and are thus even less interested in further enlargement than before. Against this background, Kyiv, Tbilisi, and Chisinau, as well as their Western friends, need to seek new paths to increase the three countries’ security, resilience, and growth before their accession to the West's major organizations. Above all, an alternative way to decrease Ukraine's current institutional isolation is to develop more intense bilateral relations with friendly states across the globe, including Germany and the United States. In Eastern Europe, moreover, Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova should attempt to create new multilateral networks with post‐communist member countries of NATO as well as the EU, and try to become part of such structures as the Three Seas Initiative or Bucharest Nine group. Entre las diversas repercusiones geopolíticas de la pandemia de COVID19 se encuentran las redefiniciones de las prioridades a corto plazo de muchas organizaciones internacionales. Entre otros, la UE y la OTAN están siendo empujados por nuevos desafíos internos y, por lo tanto, aún menos interesados en una ampliación más próxima que antes. En este contexto, Kyiv, Tbilisi, y Chisinau, así como sus amigos occidentales, deben buscar nuevos caminos para aumentar la seguridad, la resilencia, y el crecimiento de los tres países antes de su acceso a las principales organizaciones de Occidente. Una forma alternativa de disminuir, sobre todo, el actual aislamiento institucional de Ucrania es desarrollar relaciones bilaterales más intensas con estados amigos en todo el mundo, incluidos Alemania y Estados Unidos. Además, en Europa del Este, Ucrania, Georgia, y Moldavia deberían intentar crear nuevas redes multilaterales con los países miembros de la OTAN poscomunistas, así como con la UE, y tratar de formar parte de estructuras como la Iniciativa Three Seas o el grupo Bucharest Nine. COVID‐19大流行的不同地缘政治影响包括许多国际组织对短期优先事项的再定义。其中欧盟与北约组织正被新的内部挑战所包围,因此比以往任何时刻都更没有兴趣在近期进行组织扩大。以此为背景,基辅、第比利斯、基希讷乌方面及其西方盟友需要寻求新的路径以便这三国在正式加入西方主要组织前增强其安全、韧性和发展。一个减少乌克兰当前最重要的组织隔离情况的替代性方法则是与全球友好国家建立更深的双边关系,包括德国与美国。此外在东欧,乌克兰、格鲁吉亚、摩尔多瓦应试图与北约组织及欧盟中的后共产主义成员国建立新的多边网络,并试图成为这类组织的一部分,例如三海倡议或”Bucharest Nine”九国集团。

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  • Pavlo Klimkin & Andreas Umland, 2020. "Geopolitical Implications and Challenges of the Coronavirus Crisis for Ukraine," World Affairs, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 183(3), pages 256-269, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:woraff:v:183:y:2020:i:3:p:256-269
    DOI: 10.1177/0043820020942493
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