The victory of Viktor Yanukovych in the second round of Ukraine’s 2010 presidential election has been widely portrayed as a rebuke of the 2004 Orange Revolution and the pro-Western alignment it ushered in. Even before the election, however, the effects of the Eurasian color revolutions, celebrated with such euphoria in some Western foreign policy circles in the mid-2000s, had far-reaching and unintended consequences which have proven to be detrimental to U.S. influence and credibility in the region. […]
Memo #:
92
Series:
2
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PDF URL:
http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/pepm_092.pdf
Claire Tow Professor of Political Science and Director of The Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe
Affiliation
Barnard College; Columbia University
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International relations of Eurasia, Central Asian Politics, Sovereignty, Governance
