BETWEEN INVOLVED POWER AND ACTUAL HUMANITY: A TYPOLOGY OF THE DIPLOMACY OF THE WESTERN UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC

Abstract

The features of foreign policy activity of the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (WUPR) are investigated in the article. On the basis of modern approaches in the field of international relations theory, 10 types of diplomacy of this Ukrainian state in 1918-1923 were investigated: “quiet” & “protest” diplomacy); “group diplomacy” & “nichte diplomacy”; “diasporic diplomacy” & “multicultural diplomacy”; “enterprises diplomacy” & “regulatory diplomacy”; “summit diplomacy” & “cyber diplomacy”. It is concluded that, although the fundamental principle of unification with Ukraine was taken as the basis of WUPR international legal relations, the problem of powerlessness of diplomacy of this Ukrainian state was the desire of middle and lower level diplomats who confused party interests with national pseudo-actors of policy, that would embody the international prestige of the state.