Dr. Sergiy Galaka is a Professor of International Relations and International Security. In 1978 graduated from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Department of International Relations (MA). His research interests include problems of nuclear non-proliferation and wider security issues. Has a number of publications in Ukraine, Great Britain, France, Greece, and Russia, mostly devoted to nuclear non-proliferation. The book “Problem of Nuclear Non-proliferation in International Relations” was published in Kyiv in 2001. Visiting fellow at Monterey Institute of International Relations (USA, 1993), Maryland (College Park) University (USA, 1995).
While tipping the balance of the international security, the Ukrainian crisis had an additional negative impact on the existent security order – it has undermined the non-proliferation regime: the Budapest Memorandum signed by the US, UK, and Russia in 1994 failed to protect Ukrainian security after Ukraine gave up its nuclear status, due to the…
