ENGAGING UKRAINE IN 2009
New Policy Paper by Anders Aslund, Jonathan Elkind and Steven Pifer
From The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.

         
ENGAGING UKRAINE IN 2009 is a new Brookings policy paper, number 13, authored by Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Jonathan Elkind, nonresident senior fellow on energy security issues at the Brookings Institution; and Steven Pifer, visiting fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings.

The Brookings Institution Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE) recently hosted experts Steven Pifer, Anders Aslund and Jonathan Elkind for a discussion of their new Brookings policy paper.  They also discussed the challenges facing Ukraine and offered recommendations to the Obama administration.

As the global economic crisis deepens, few countries have been hit as hard as Ukraine. Complicating the country’s plight has been a long-running bout of political turmoil, and with the approach of presidential elections later this year, the partisan battles are intensifying, pitting an unpopular president against his own prime minister.

Abroad, Ukraine faces a more assertive Russia, and western European neighbors doubt Ukraine’s ability to follow a European course. How should the United States, which has devoted considerable time, energy and resources to promoting Ukraine’s transformation during the past 17 years, now engage with Kyiv?

The new Brookings policy paper Engaging Ukraine in 2009 looks at U.S. interests in Ukraine, describes four major challenges currently facing the country, and offers recommendations for U.S. policy .  

Click on the link to go to Engaging Ukraine in 2009:  http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2009/03_ukraine_pifer.aspx