Ukrainian prism. Between strategic partnership and security. September 2013

During its independence, Ukraine has overcome a significant way to recognize its role as a sovereign state and a regional leader in the Eastern Europe region. During this time, a number of foreign policy instruments have been tested, which were aimed at approving the set goals and maintaining the proper level of national security of the state. One of the tools that, unfortunately, has not found clear conceptualization in Ukraine’s foreign policy is strategic partnership. For strategicness in bilateral relations, the reliance in the joint realization of national interests of states in one or more important spheres in long -term mutual mutual positions. At one time, at the level of individual declarations and statements, Ukraine recognized the strategic relations with about 20 countries of the world among which were, for example, and Rgentina, Bulgaria, Finland.

Of course, a large number of declared strategic relations reduced the effectiveness of this instrument and did not allow the necessary tasks in political dialogue, economic cooperation and military cooperation. Changing the geopolitical schedule of forces, shifting emphasis in the deployment of conflicts from global to the regional level, actualization of new threats of transnational nature necessitates the revision of Ukraine to the structure of relations with the countries of Eastern Europe, the Black Sea basin and not last evil.

Currently, relations with Russia, China and the United States are strategic. At the regional level, Poland and Turkey are of great strategic importance for Ukraine. Germany, as an influential EU level, also plays an increasingly prominent role, which is not reduced to the EU’s vinnous Ukraine’s foreign policy fairway. The first place in the construction of strategic relations is the issue of strengthening international guarantees of international security of Ukraine, sovereignty and territorial integrity. It is clear that security cases cannot only rely on declarations and framework agreements. It is necessary to identify the main directions of interaction, tools and ways that are aimed at achieving common goals, as well as eliminating factors that can potentially jeopardize the form of constructing relations between countries.

It was this aspect that Ukrainian experts have paid attention to their works, exploring the current state of Ukraine’s relations with China, Germany, Poland, Russia, the USA and Turkey. A audit of modern framework and mechanisms of cooperation was carried out, and specific directions were provided for their optimization and focus on security issues.

The selected format of analytical work (Policy Paper) provides an orientation to the development of practical recommendations that can be used by appropriate decision -making entities in Ukraine to form better foreign foreign policy in the field of security and maintain strategic relations with the selected states.

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