Ukraine’s Move to the West: The Power of Global Elite Networks

This book examines the intervention of global elite networks in the context of Ukraine’s EU-IMF deal within the overall ‘Euromaidan moment’ (late 2013-early 2014).It develops an empirically grounded investigation focused on three sets of modalities within the EU-IMF package during this time period - namely, GM agriculture (biotechnology), hydraulic fracking and an internationally enabled regime change - as proposed solutions for urgent problems confronting Ukraine.There is a particular spotlight on the intersections between corporate actors, political players, foundations and think tanks in the reproduction of particular constellations of power between Western (particularly U.S.-based) networks and Ukrainian agents and intermediaries.The complexity of social dynamics allow for multiple forms of power to operate at once in this space of international politics.This book details and analyses how the global elite network operating around Ukraine at this time produced the three unusual outc