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This timely and concise account of the roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine explains how the 2013-14 protests in Ukraine unleashed seditionist movements in Crimea and Eastern Donbas. It analyzes why no political solution to this war was found prior to the catastrophic Russian attack of 2022.
Sommario
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.
Info autore
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.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).
Riassunto
This timely and concise account of the roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine explains how the 2013–14 protests in Ukraine unleashed seditionist movements in Crimea and Eastern Donbas. It analyzes why no political solution to this war was found prior to the catastrophic Russian attack of 2022.
