Abstract:

This article describes the crisis in Ukraine, which began to mature in February 2014 and began to occupy the world agenda, as a comprehensive and multi-dimensional conflict in its historical, socio-cultural, economic, psychological, institutional, geopolitical and international dimensions, beyond the triggering and facilitating factors. The state of Ukraine has not been able to provide legality throughout the country for more than 20 years after the Soviet Union. In Ukraine, the demographic differentiation, which is equivalent to the geopolitical lines and the influence struggle between the EU and Russia rather than ethnic and religious lines, appears to be a major obstacle in the construction of national identity and modern Ukrainian nation. In the current crisis, the dependence of the Ukrainian economy on Russia and the control by the coalition of oligarchs and political electors is another important factor. Russia’s efforts to use its energy resources as a means of foreign policy against its own nearby population in recent periods have devastating effects on Ukraine’s own. Russia, NATO and the EU are raising the threat they perceive depending on their expansion borders, and in Ukraine, as for example, Georgia is acting with a zero-total game approach. It is likely that the crisis in Ukraine will be reflected beyond Eastern Europe in the next period. In this context, the power struggle in the Eurasian geography, primarily energy, is possible to interact with the Cyprus issue, the Middle East peace process, Iran's nuclear program, the Syrian crisis and the Kurdish issue. In this period when the United States begins to move towards Eastern Asia and the Pacific, it is estimated that new conflict areas and cooperation opportunities could emerge globally. “The

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