... officially living on Ukraine s te ies o ted to ing it ute o years into independence as it was at its inception. This article uses a micro-level approach to the process of state-building with an emphasis on power struggles between various actors within the state and a rational choice focus on the incentive...

...Silvia von Steinsdorff The empirical case studies of this special issue not only provide an illuminating insight into the dynamic of political processes within the post-Soviet de facto states, they also contribute to the discussion of possible links between different strategies of state-building...