Ukraine's Unnamed War

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-05594-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013–2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a 'civil war' in order to claim non-involvement. This flies in the face of evidence, but the authors argue that the social science literature on civil wars can be used help understand why no political solution was found between 2015 and 2022. The book explains how Russia, after seizing Crimea, was reacting to events it could not control and sent troops only to areas of Ukraine where it knew it would face little resistance (Eastern Donbas). Kremlin decisionmakers misunderstood the attachment of the Russian-speaking population to the Ukrainian state and also failed to anticipate that their intervention would transform Ukraine into a more cohesively 'Ukrainian' polity. Drawing on Ukrainian documentary sources, this concise book explains these important developments to a non-specialist readership.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arel, Dominique

Driscoll, Jesse

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A civil war within the 'Russian World'; 2. A theory of civil war onset in post-soviet Eurasia; 3. Before Maidan; 4. Regime change (Maidan); 5. Irredentist annexation (Crimea); 6. The Russian spring (East Ukraine); 7. The war and Russian intervention (Donbas); 8. A frozen conflict thaws.

Über Autor(innen)

Arel, Dominique
Dominique Arel is Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa. His publications include Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine (co-edited with Blair A. Ruble, 2006). He organizes the Annual Danyliw Research Seminar on Ukraine and is Director of the Annual ASN World Convention at Columbia University.

Driscoll, Jesse
Jesse Driscoll is an associate professor of political science at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California San Diego. His publications include Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States (Cambridge, 2015) and Doing Global Fieldwork (2021).