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"This book examines why, when the conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014, fighting broke out in the Donets'k region, whereas it did not in Kharkiv city, despite the city, like the Donets'k region, being geographically proximate to Russia and similar in ethnic and linguistic make up. Based on extensive original research, the book argues that a key factor was the nature and behaviour of local elites, with those in Kharkiv having diffuse ties to the centre and therefore being more capable of adapting to sudden, profound regime change at the centre, whereas the elites in the Donets'k region had much more concentrated ties to the centre, were dependent on one network, and therefore were much less able to cope with change. The book thereby demonstrates how crucial for Ukraine are patronal politics, patronage networks, and informal centre-region relations, and that it was these local political circumstances, rather than Russia, which brought about the conflict"--

Intro -- Vorwort -- Foreword -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Content -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Nataliya Popovytsch und Juriy Kopynets', Die Geschichte der Ukraine von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit -- I. Einführung -- II. Zur Urgeschichte der Ukrainischen Sprache -- III. Kyjiwer Rus - der erste slawische Staat in Osteuropa -- IV. Ukrainische Länder im 12. bis 14. Jahrhundert -- 1. Der Staat Halytsch-Wolyn' - der rechtmäßige Erbe der Kyjiwer Rus' -- 2. Merkmale des Staates von Litauen und Rus' -- V. Ukrainer unter den Bedingungen der Vereinigungspolitik -- VI. Auftritt der ukrainischen Kosaken - Phänomen in der Geschichte der Europäischen Zivilisation -- Anhang -- Transliteration einiger Ukrainischer geografischer Namen und Personennamen -- Abstract -- Carolin Gornig, Die Geschichte der Ukraine vom Beginn der Neuzeit bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs -- I. Die Ukrainer unter Polen-Litauen -- II. Die Kosakenzeit -- 1. Kosakentum -- 2. Polnische Herrscher und Kosaken -- 3. Bündnis mit dem Moskauer Reich -- 4. Teilung des Kosakengebiets -- III. Die Ukraine im 18. Jahrhundert unter Polen-Litauen und dem Zarenreich -- 1. Linksufrige Ukraine -- 2. Rechtsufrige Ukraine und die Teilungen Polens -- IV. Die Ukraine unter dem Habsburger Reich und dem Zarenreich -- 1. Habsburger Reich -- 2. Zarenreich -- V. Die ukrainische Nationalbewegung -- 1. Habsburger Reich -- 2. Zarenreich -- VI. Die Ukraine im Ersten Weltkrieg -- VII. Zusammenfassung -- Abstract -- Andrij Kudrjatschenko, Die Entwicklung der Ukraine von 1917 bis 1991 -- I. Einführung -- II. Die Ukraine zwischen zwei Weltkriegen -- III. Hungersnot (Holodomor) in der Ukraine 1932-1933 -- IV. Stalinistische Unterdrückung -- V. Die westukrainischen Gebiete, geopolitische Lage der Ukraine. Der Zweite Weltkrieg -- VI. Die Essenz des nationalsozialistischen Besatzungsregimes in der Ukraine -- VII. Pogrome. Holocaust.

Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life. Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete. In Ukraine, landscapes filled with death and destruction prompted attentiveness to human vulnerabilities and the cultivation of everyday, interpersonal peace. Uehling explores a constellation of social practices where ethics of care were in operation. People were also drawn into the conflict in an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased themselves, smuggling insulin, and cutting ties to former friends. Each chapter considers a different site where care can produce interpersonal peace or its antipode, everyday war.

This book explains the position of the rebels in Southeastern Ukraine. It follows the rebellion's fortunes after Moscow did not repeat the Crimea scenario in Donbas, analyzes the logic of armed struggle and the phenomenon of the Russian Spring, and introduces prospects for solutions

Debating the War in Ukraine discusses whether the war could have been avoided, and, if so, how? In this dialogical book, the authors discuss nodal points of history in terms of counterfactuals and contrastive explanations, concluding by considering future possibilities. They start in the 1990s where several causal elements of the war originate involving Russia's economic developments and Europe's security arrangements. Moving on to the next decade, they focus on the Iraq war, colour revolutions, and NATO's 2008 announcement that Ukraine and Georgia will become members. Finally, they explore the past decade including the Ukrainian crisis of 2013-2014, the annexation of Crimea, and the consecutive war in east Ukraine. The current war can also be seen as a continuum of that war. The authors agree that NATO's 2008 announcement on Ukraine's and Georgia's NATO membership was an unnecessary provocation, and that the implementation of the Minsk agreement could have prevented the current war, but otherwise their analysis of counterfactual possibilities differs, especially when it comes to the action-possibilities of the West (including diverse actors). These differences are not just dependent on different readings of relevant evidence but, importantly, stem from dissimilar contrast spaces and divergent theoretical understandings of the nature of states and mechanisms of international relations and political economy. This short, highly accessible book will be of great interest to all those studying and working in international relations and its various subfields such as peace and conflict studies and security studies, as well as all those wishing to understand more about the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

This volume of collected papers takes stock of what has become known about the war in eastern Ukraine's Donets Basin (Donbas) between April 2014 and mid-2020. It provides an introduction to the conflict and illustrates the key point of contention in the academic debate surrounding it - the question whether this war is primarily an internal Ukrainian phenomenon or the result of a covert Russian invasion. The contributions by recognized specialists from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and Japan offer multifaceted views and insights into this long-lasting conflict for both expert readers and those who are new to the topic.