The Reasons for Ukraine’s Independence

Faced with the problems of instability of the new states formed at the end of the bipolar world, in recent years those political independencies – which had forced many scholars of Political Philosophy, Law, Sociology and International Relations to note that the international order made up of states thought to be immovable and unchanging over time was profoundly changing – have again been seen as critical, temporary or even illegitimate. This was particularly evident in the case of Ukraine, even though independence had gained more than 90 percent of the vote on December 1, 1991, voted in by very different ethnicities and regions. The tendency to overlook the reasons for that independence, its historical motivations, the profound causes of the claim of self-rule, of deciding on one’s own future, has led to misunderstanding both the complexity of that case and in general the deep dynamics that continue to unfold in a world mistakenly believed to be immobile and composed of rigid and unchangeable political-territorial realities.