1st Edition

Ukraine, the EU and Economic Integration Opportunities and Challenges

By Oleg Tankovsky Copyright 2026
142 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

142 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book addresses a central puzzle in the study of European integration: why have some post-communist countries successfully embedded democratic and market institutions after EU accession or candidacy, while others have faltered or regressed? This book utilizes principal component analysis to create a unique composite indicator for EU integration readiness, offering a novel approach to... Read more

1. Introduction 2. International Integrations in general 3. International Political Economy, Regimes, and Path Dependence in Ukraine 4. Methodology 5. Ukraine’s Macroeconomic Foundations Before and After the War 6. Economic Reforms Since 2014: Mapping the Transformation 7. Comparative Assessment of EU Candidate Countries 8. Foreign Policy Analysis 9. Conflict, Identity, and EU Accession Obstacles in the framework of case studies 10. Discussion and Conclusions 

Biography

Oleg Tankovsky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and International Economics, University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary.