Le triangle Kiev-Bruxelles-Moscou

The Kiev-Brussels-Moscow triangle: The impact of the Orange Revolution and Yushchenko's presidency (January 2005- August 2006) A triangular relationship is neither the sum of all bilateral relations nor a rapprochement between three parties in a given situation. It emerges when one of the parties significantly affects relations between the other two, as in the triangle formed by Ukraine, Russia and the EU. The plans with respect to Europe borne by President Yushchenko and the Orange Revolution modified the country's relations with the other two; they broke into the partnership between Russia and the EU and exposed its limits. What impact did the Orange Revolution and the first part of Yushchenko's presidency have on relations among the three parties? How to understand this triangular relationship? Is Ukraine now an apple of discord between Russia and the EU? Or is it part of a vast operation of European reconciliation? Should events be analyzed as a game with neither winner nor loser, as some Russian leaders have suggested? This would amount to accepting an approach based on a balance of power, a concept deemed obsolete since the end of the Cold War. On the contrary, are changes in this triangle to be understood as a prolongation beyond the end of the Cold War, as a post-imperial reassessment of the situation and the emergence of a single, whole Europe? These trends condition the equilibrium for tomorrow's Europe

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