Anti-government Non-state Armed Actors in the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine
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Title
Anti-government Non-state Armed Actors in the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine
Subject
Ukraine
armed conflict
Donbas
opolchentsy
ANSA
Russia
foreign fighters
insurgency
Description
This article presents the main ANSA involved in the conflict in EasternUkraine. It focusses on an analysis of the specific phenomenon of theopolchentsy - Narodnoe opolchenie Donbassa. The aim of this paper is tointroduce and describe these actors and to ground them in certaintheoretical conceptions. The paper also tracks the changing motivations ofthe various ANSA brought under the umbrella of the quasi-state actor NODthroughout the conflict, and the changing array of formations that made upthe opolchenie during a particular period of time. Evidently, the opolcheniedo not fit into the usual classifications of ANSA.
Creator
Šmíd, Tomáš
Šmídová, Alexandra
Source
Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 2 (2021); 35-64
2788-2993
2788-2985
10.32422/mv-cjir.56.2
Publisher
Institute of International Relations Prague
Date
2021-06-01
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Relation
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Research Articles
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Collection
Citation
Šmíd, Tomáš and Šmídová, Alexandra, Anti-government Non-state Armed Actors in the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine, Institute of International Relations Prague, 2021, accessed November 23, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/3512