Польсько-українські відносини 1991-2000 рр.: політична та економічна взаємодія

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Afanasyev Illia Yu. Polish-Ukrainian Relations 1991-2000: Political and Economical Interaction. -- The Manuscript.

Thesis on competing a scientific degree of the Candidate of Historical Science on speciality 07.00.02 -- World History.

The thesis is submitted considers the complex of Polish-Ukrainian political and economical relations, including the contacts of the governments as well as of regional authorities, Polish and Ukrainian political parties and private companies. The sources are: the archival documents of Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former Ministry of Foreign Economical Relations and Trade; documents published by the state and academic institutions in Ukraine and Poland; the publications of historians, politologists, sociologists, economists and statistics; interviews, press-releases and other materials of mass-media. Within the analysis of historic sources some methodological problems have been affected.

The events are represented in the context of multilateral relations at the region of East-Central Europe and foreign policies of Russia and USA. Ukrainian and Polish domestic political factors have been although taken into account.

Comparative analysis has used to define the causes of the changes of Polish-Ukrainian goods' trade. These changes were determined mostly by general tendencies of Polish and Ukrainian economic as well as by general transition in Central-Eastern Europe. The factors of changes have been discovered or additionally proved. Bilateral relations had been developing fruitfully till the August of 1993; minimal legal and institutional basis formed in 1991-1993. After that success a short period of stagnation began, determined mostly by the position of Ukraine at the global scene; the shortage of inner political stability. Some aspects of Polish policy factors caused that worsening of the relations. Polish-Ukrainian political relations changed at the beginning of 1995, and the new period of economical contacts started in August of 1994. Those changes where determined mostly by the elimination of abovementioned negative factors.

During 1995 -- August 1998 political and economical aspects of Polish-Ukrainian relations were more interdependent. In mid-1990-s Polish state made efforts to improve Ukraine's relations with European and Euro-Atlantic structures: EU, NATO, CEFTA, etc. Mutual activity of influential intellectuals, good relations of presidents Kuchma and Kwasniewski, economic processes and other factors helped to signing of important declarations analyzed in the dissertation. The Polish-Ukrainian trade of that period should be characterized as rapid growth. The period from the second half of 1994 to the first half of 1998 was also marked with the development of Polish investing in Ukraine and continuing of interregional cooperation. Many problems of border infrastructure were solved, too.

The next period was determined by Asian and Russian economic crisises, Ukrainian protectionism and other causes. That period has been characterized as the period of the appearing of Odessa-Brody-Gdansk oil-transportation corridor project as one of the principal subjects of bilateral negotiations. It has been supposed in the thesis, that the downfall of Polish-Ukrainian goods trade was one of the reasons for Polish and Ukrainian powers as well as of influential groups in the USA to enhance the activity toward the realization of Odessa-Brody-Gdansk oil-transportation project. At the end of the period of Odessa-Brody-Gdansk project's domination (late 1998 -- 2000) Polish-Ukrainian goods' trade began to grow again; the causes are explained in the thesis.

The achievements and the problems of interregional cooperation, especially of euroregions Carpathian and Bug, have been also considered. The activities of extremist groups have been analyzed, too. The author supposes, that anti-Polish extremists in Lviv region and ante-Ukrainian extremists of Peremishl should be evaluated as latent threat, which could be dangerous in the case of unfavourable international situation's changes for Polish-Ukrainian strategic partnership.

Key words: Polish-Ukrainian goods' trading, export, import, investments, euroregion, interregional cooperation, strategic partnership, oil-transportation corridor.

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