The Separatist War in Donbas: A Violent Break-up of Ukraine?†
| Autor: | Ivan Katchanovski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | European Politics and Society. 17:473-489 |
| ISSN: | 2374-5126 2374-5118 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23745118.2016.1154131 |
| Popis: | Ukraine previously experienced significant regional political divisions, including separatism in Crimea and Donbas. However, in contrast to post-communist countries such as Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and former Yugoslavia, prior to 2014 Ukraine was able to avoid a war and a break-up. This study examines the role of separatists, the Yanukovych government, the Maidan opposition and the Maidan government, far-right organizations, Russia, the US, and the EU in the conflict in Donbas. It uses a specially commissioned survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) in 2014 to analyse public support for separatism in Donbas, compared to other regions of Ukraine, and the major factors which affect such support. It concludes that all these actors contributed in various ways to the conflict in Donbas, which involved both a civil war and a direct Russian military intervention since August 2014. The study links this conflict to the ‘Euromaidan’, specifically, the government overthrow by mean... |
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