Rebel Militias in Eastern Ukraine

This book extends principal-agent theory to the case of pro-Russian rebel militias in Eastern Ukraine. It offers systematic insights into the structures and relations within the leaderless rebellion in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.

Autorentext

Martin Lary is a researcher at the Institute of Political Studies (IPS), Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He has a PhD from Charles University and is co-author of Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin's Russia: Legacies, Forms and Threats (2019).

Inhalt

1 Introduction 2 War in Eastern Ukraine as the Delegation of Leaderless Rebellion 3 The Victory of Euromaidan as a Critical Juncture 4 Social Embeddedness of the Pro-Russian Secessionists and Rebel Commanders 5 Extreme Fragmentation in Leaderless Rebellion 6 Solving the Problem of the Fragmentation: Forced Merger 7 Russia's Proxy Army in the Donbas 8 Conclusion