(Hardback)

Provides the first detailed account of US diplomacy toward independent Ukraine, covering the formative dozen years following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. Steven Pifer, who worked on US Ukraine relations at the State Department and the White House and as ambassador to Ukraine, has written an insider's narrative of the ups and downs in the relationship.

(Paperback)

Analyzes Ukraine's difficulties, related to both domestic conditions - such as fractious politics - and foreign policy issues related to the Black Sea fleet and Ukrainian and European dependence on Russia's natural gas.