The essays of this collected volume analyze Ukrainian political development crises as components of a larger modernization crisis syndrome.

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Prof. Galyna Zelenko is Head of the Department of Political Institutions and Processes at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU) in Kyiv. She is a member of the Board of the International Political Science Association, NANU's Commission on European Integration and the Ukrainian Education, Science Ministry's Expert Group on Evaluating Social Science Institutions, and corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Zelenko is author of more than 200 research papers as well as two monographs, and editor of 36 collected volumes.Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.Prof. Oleg Rafalskiy is Director of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.