Ukraine in Conflict: An Analytical Chronicle. An E-IR Open Access Book by David R. Marples.
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Through a series of articles written between 2013 and 2017, this book examines Ukraine during its period of conflict – from the protests and uprising of Euromaidan, to the Russian annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of war in Ukraine’s two eastern provinces Donetsk and Luhansk. It also looks at Ukraine’s response to Russian incursions in the form of Decommunisation – the removal of Lenin statues, Communist symbols, and the imposition of the so-called Memory Laws of the spring of 2015. The book places these events in the context of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, and Ukraine’s geostrategic location between Russia and the European Union. It seeks to provide answers to questions that are too often mired in propaganda and invective and to assess whether the road Ukraine has taken is likely to end in success or failure.
Table of Contents
- PROSPECTS FOR ‘PUTINISM’ IN UKRAINE
- UKRAINE’S ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT WITH THE EU: ACCEPTABLE COMPROMISES AND SHARED HYPOCRISIES
- WHAT DO UKRAINIANS WANT?
- EUROMAIDAN: IS THERE AN END GAME?
- THE PEOPLE AND THE OPPOSITION
- ANALYSING EUROMAIDAN FROM THE WEST
- INSIDE THE HEAD OF V.V. PUTIN
- CRIMEA: RECAPPING FIVE MONTHS OF CHANGE IN UKRAINE
- ODESA AND THE ESCALATING WAR
- KING COAL AND THE FUTURE OF THE UKRAINIAN DONBAS
- IGOR STRELKOV: MOSCOW AGENT OR MILITARY ROMANTIC?
- PUTIN’S DWINDLING OPTIONS IN UKRAINE
- LONG LIVE THE DONETSK PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC!
- THE AFTERMATH OF MH-17
- THE UKRAINIAN ARMY IS UNPREPARED FOR WAR
- @FUCKYOUPUTIN
- ASSESSING UKRAINE’S OPTIONS
- PREPARING FOR NEW PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN UKRAINE
- THE SNIPERS’ MASSACRE IN KYIV
- THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLICS CAST THEIR VOTES
- POROSHENKO’S CHOICES AFTER THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
- MINSK-2
- ONE YEAR AFTER EUROMAIDAN
- COMPARING MAIDAN 2004 WITH EUROMAIDAN 2014
- ETHNIC AND SOCIAL COMPOSITION OF UKRAINE’S REGIONS AND VOTING PATTERNS
- UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT LEGALISES ‘FIGHTERS FOR INDEPENDENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY’
- VOLODYMYR VIATROVYCH AND UKRAINE’S DECOMMUNISATION LAWS
- KYIV REVISITED
- WHAT TO DO WITH DONBAS: PHASE 3
- UKRAINE AT 24
- PEACE AT LAST IN UKRAINE? ANALYSING RUSSIAN GOALS
- COMMUNIST HEROES OF UKRAINE
- THE DNR, ‘GRISHA PHILLIPS’, AND SPEAKING THE TRUTH
- RUSSIANS AS TERRORIST VICTIMS
- DECENTRALISATION: PROS, CONS, AND PROSPECTS
- THE ‘IMMINENT COLLAPSE OF RUSSIA’: A RESPONSE TO ALEXANDER J. MOTYL
- POROSHENKO, POLLS, AND THE RISE OF THE ‘GAS PRINCESS’
- UKRAINE AND RUSSIA: REWRITING HISTORIES
- THE DONALD ON CRIMEA
- DEATH OF A SEPARATIST LEADER
- THE DESTRUCTION OF ‘COLONIAL REMNANTS’
