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

Identifier

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 6, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/3512

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