title: Ukraine’s foreign policy dilemmas between European integration, NATO aspirations, and the russian pressure: the premises, consequences, and lessons of non-alignment
abstract: Introduction.The article addresses the problem of Ukraine's non-alignment status and the evolution of its concept.The collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukraine's subsequent independence in 1991 presented the newly sovereign state with significant strategic dilemmas concerning its national security and foreign policy orientation [1, p. 19].Confronted with the competing influences of Russia and the West, Ukraine initially opted for a neutral stance, later evolving into a policy of non-alignment [25
journal: Актуальні проблеми філософії та соціології