In February 2014, Russian forces seized Crimea and then began supporting the separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine. This intervention transformed the conflict between the Maidan and Viktor Yanukovychs regime into an international one, and brought Ukraine and Russia into a state of war.
The ongoing crisis clearly has many complex causes that need to be tackled if it is to be overcome. But among the most important causes at the international level has been the contest between two grand projects of regional integration for the labour, natural resources and markets of Ukraine.
These are the European Union, on the one side, and the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union on the other. Both of them serve as …
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