UKRAINIAN CRISIS: COMPARISON AND CONFRONTATION BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES AND PROSPECTS
Published 2016-01-01
Keywords
- Ukrainian crisis,
- Horizon 2020,
- Eastern borders,
- Russia,
- Western Bloc
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Abstract
Since the end of the Cold War, Europe has never been so peacefully consolidated. However,
its vulnerability still exists in a context of increasing globalization, where societies are facing
security threats and challenges that are growing in size and sophistication, as Ukraine
highlights. To protect freedom, security, human rights, political stability, democracy and
cultural identity, the EU developed effective tools within which research and innovation can
play a fundamental role of support to understand, identify, prevent and discourage security
threats. Horizon 2020 programme section “Secure societies: Protecting freedom and security
of Europe and Its Citizens” designed to improve border security through conflict prevention
and peace-building, will contribute to the implementation of Europe 2020 strategy. The aim
of this paper is to define the advancement degree of the functional change on EU Eastern
borders and to understand the value and the future geopolitical implications of the relations
between Ukraine, Russia, EU, and USA