蘇後時期烏克蘭與俄羅斯關係--以烏克蘭國族認同的轉變為中心

This thesis focuses on the origin and the transition of the concept "sovereignty". The hypothesis is foreign policy in each different country should be formed by evolving concepts in each different society. On the one hand, national identity, which influenced by internal and external factors, is an ever-changing concept. On the other hand, identity is influenced by the manipulation of a polity's collective memory. The interaction among mainstream social narratives, the domestic issues and foreign policy-making plays a crucial role. The relationship between Ukraine and Russia, which could be traced to 8th century, is overlapped in their common history. The overlap of the imagined communities not only binders national integration of the Ukraine, but also political development of CIS. The research framework of this thesis includes: during the soviet and post-soviet era, how Ukraine political leaders interact with Moscow authorities and general people in the Ukraine. Two sub-types- balancing and bandwagoning-are introduced to trace back to 19th century while the Ukraine nation was developed. The ambivalent identity also limits the stability in contemporary Ukraine. Finally, national identity has an extraordinary important role in East European politics, for the political institutions in the East European countries are weak, and the social coherence still remains in the huge diversity of the image of nationhood