Abstract
As one of the most serious geopolitical crisis since the end of the Cold War, the Ukraine Crisis has an impact not only upon the reshaping of the Eurasian political architecture, but also upon the reconstruction of the world order. This paper deploys content analysis of 45 academic papers on “Ukraine Crisis” in Chinese core journals (CSSCI) from December 2013 to April 2015, which are further compared with 56 papers whose research subject is “Ukraine politics” in the same journal database from the January 2004 to November 2013. It explores how the Chinese academia discusses Ukraine from a wider range of perspectives including international political economy, politics security and international relations in the past 10 years. It finds that Chinese scholars give different interpretations to the development of Ukraine Crisis. From a perspective of institutional transformation, Ukraine is an important case of a political failure leading to social disorders. From a geopolitical perspective, Russia, the United States and the European Union each have their respective objectives in Ukraine. From a perspective of imperial studies, although the “new Cold War” thesis has been overplayed, Russia will double its efforts to look for alignment with anti-west forces, resulting in more complication in alignment among major countries. The impact of the crisis is yet to be felt globally and its warning lessons are to be learned by China.
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