The Particular Direction of Ukrainian Foreign Policy: Historical, Political & Economic Background of the Relations between Ukraine and Asian Countries

Prof. Makar Taran
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
April 16, 2010 - 1:30pm
ASU Tempe campus, Coor Building, Room 4403

Professor Taran received his Ph.D. (Kandidat Nauk) in history from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. His research interests are the history of the Far East, US-China-Taiwan relations, and the foreign policy of Ukraine.

Taran’s publications include The Democratization of Taiwan and U.S. Foreign Policy in East Asia (Znannya Society, 2002) [In Ukrainian], “The Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1995-96: The Three Parts Key to Incentives and Patterns of Behavior” (World of Orient 2007 No. 4) [In Ukrainian], and “Not Friends but not Enemies: US–China Relations on the Verge of Centuries” (Attaché: Military Diplomacy 2007
No. 3) [In Russian].

He currently is serving as a Fulbright Fellow in the ASU School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies.