{"id":111809,"date":"2017-03-07T10:42:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T10:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ucmc.org.ua\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2024-01-30T08:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T06:36:46","slug":"can-ukraine-achieve-reform-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/can-ukraine-achieve-reform-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Can Ukraine Achieve a Reform Breakthrough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>05 April 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/expert\/john-lough\">John Lough<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">Iryna Solonenko, Researcher,\u00a0European University Viadrina, Frankfurt\/Oder\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;\">The key question is whether Ukrainians themselves can overcome the chief impediment to reform \u2013 the capture of the state by a narrow class of wealthy\u00a0business people and their associates.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyload size-large\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 800 460'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/sites\/files\/chathamhouse\/styles\/main_image_800x460\/public\/images\/2016-04-05-ukraine-reforms.jpg?itok=CA5-fT0J\" alt=\"Young Ukrainians throw snowballs at each other near the Motherland Monument at the Great Patriotic War Memorial Complex in Kyiv, Ukraine on 17 January 2016. Photo: Getty Images.\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Ukrainians throw snowballs at each other near the Motherland Monument at the Great Patriotic War Memorial Complex in Kyiv, Ukraine on 17 January 2016. Photo: Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Ukrainians showed impressive resilience in 2014 in the face of revolution and Russian\u00a0aggression that led to war. With strong Western support, the new government was able to\u00a0stabilize Ukraine\u2019s perilous financial situation and start a reform effort designed to shift the\u00a0country onto a European path of development. Inevitably, it did not take long for the\u00a0revolutionary zeal of the \u2018Maidan\u2019 to collide with Ukraine\u2019s deeply embedded problems of\u00a0governance. These slowed the momentum of reforms in 2015, leading to the breakdown of the\u00a0ruling coalition in early 2016.<\/li>\n<li>It is easy to characterize Ukraine\u2019s latest attempt to reform as a repeat of the unrealized potential\u00a0of the 2004 Orange Revolution. This view is premature and disregards the fact that Ukraine has\u00a0changed significantly since then. The country today has a much stronger sense of independent\u00a0identity, symbolized by its rapidly developing civil society. The external environment is also markedly different. Moscow\u2019s break with Europe and its efforts to compel Ukraine to be part of a\u00a0Russian sphere of influence have finally forced Ukrainian elites to make a choice between\u00a0modernization on a Russian or a European model. Fearful of the danger of Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0destabilization, Western countries are also showing an unprecedented level of support for its\u00a0reform efforts.<\/li>\n<li>These external factors will not alone determine whether Ukraine\u2019s reforms will reach a critical\u00a0mass. The key question is whether Ukrainians themselves can find the will and the means to\u00a0overcome the chief impediment to reform \u2013 the capture of the state by a narrow class of wealthy\u00a0business people and their associates.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s weak institutions and its experience of 25 years of misrule since independence place\u00a0an extraordinary burden on reformist forces. The pressures driving reform at present marginally\u00a0outweigh those impeding them. However, the struggle of the \u2018new\u2019 against the \u2018old\u2019 is playing\u00a0itself out slowly and painfully, making it impossible to judge definitively at this point whether Ukraine\u2019s reforms are destined to succeed or fail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See more at: https:\/\/www.chathamhouse.org\/publication\/can-ukraine-achieve-reform-breakthrough#sthash.YcVyTN6j.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05 April 2016 Author John Lough Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme Author Iryna Solonenko, Researcher,\u00a0European University Viadrina, Frankfurt\/Oder\u00a0 The key question is whether Ukrainians themselves can overcome the chief impediment to reform \u2013 the capture of the state by a narrow class of wealthy\u00a0business people and their associates. 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