...Gabriel Porc This article presents Ukraine’s securitization of culture in wartime (2014–24) through the development of cultural diplomacy activities, as a critical element of the country’s national security. It focuses on the Ukrainian Institute as a key actor of foreign policy. Its institutional...

... the witness to speak in their preferred language. The situation becomes more complicated when witnesses speak two languages that are commonly used in their country. In the case of Ukraine, the use of Ukrainian or Russian can be politically charged. Interviews conducted with Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking...

...Elżbieta Kwiecińska; Małgorzata Łukianow In the midst of an ongoing war, oral history interviewers bear a particular responsibility toward vulnerable groups they are working with. As Polish scholars, we were an outside privileged group unaffected by the Russian aggression against Ukraine...

...Natalia Otrishchenko; Artem Kharchenko; Valentyna Shevchenko This article covers the experiences of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, most of whom were internally displaced scholars, in one of the projects documenting the Russian war in Ukraine. It reflects on this initiative from different...

...Sofya du Boulay This special section aims to examine the relationship between succession and legitimation in post-Soviet Eurasia. Presidential successions in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan offer valuable insights into the intricate nature of regime gaining and losing legitimacy...

...Paulina Pospieszna; Patrice C. McMahon This study examines democracy promotion during interstate war, focusing on Polish NGO efforts during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. By examining the efforts of Polish NGOs during the ongoing war in Ukraine, the study explores the strategies, areas...

...Sanshiro Hosaka Drawing on the concept of strategic narrative, this article explores how Russia’s issue narratives on the Ukraine events were reproduced by local narrative agents. I conducted content analysis of texts published in Japan from 2014 through 2019, and regression analysis to examine...

... of the emergence and usage of the techno-populist antinomic prima facie. email: [email protected] © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 techno-populism Putin Russia Ukraine Presidential Address Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has puzzled many...

...Tor Bukkvoll This article discusses critical failures in Ukrainian defense production and procurement in the period 2014 to 2023. The main puzzle is why Ukraine did so little to satisfy the needs of the country’s armed forces in essential segments of military capabilities when there seems to have...

... educational policy and has implications on how pupils of different ages see the social reality and their role in it. email: [email protected] © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 Ukraine Donbas self-proclaimed republics School children Great Patriotic War...

...Paul D’Anieri Of Ukraine’s six presidential transitions, only those in 2010 and 2019 proceeded entirely as envisioned in the constitution. In several cases, elections and transitions resulted from ad hoc arrangements made to address political crises. In one case, street protests forced...

...Marta Jaroszewicz; Jan Grzymski This article addresses the discourses and practices of securitization toward internally displaced persons (IDPs) after the Russian military intervention in the eastern part of Ukraine in 2014. It investigates in what ways the IDPs’ rights to vote in the local...

... Ukrainian cities. We focus on the effects of parental and individual CPSU membership over individual support for EU/NATO membership, on perceptions of the Soviet period for Ukraine, and on the perceived legitimacy of the 11 May 2014 “Donetsk People’s Republic” independence referendum. Using survey data...

... a consensus on the unintended consequences of election observation. This article empirically tests the hypothesis that observers can deter election-day fraud through a natural experiment on polling-station-level election results. Using data from the Ukraine 2004 presidential election, it will show that OSCE...

... similarities in conflicts in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine and the six of the nine counties of Ulster that are Northern Ireland. The similarity in the Ukrainian and Irish experiences of treatment under Russian/Soviet and British rule is starker when we take into account the large differences...

...Volodymyr Reznik; Oleksandr Reznik This article explores the sources of legitimacy of private property in the means of production in Ukraine. The conceptualization of legitimacy of private property was made by analyzing theoretical approaches to the study of the foundations of private property...

... decisions to participate in rural collective action. Using unique data from rural Ukraine, I approach these questions empirically distinguishing different types of participation. I find that social trust and mental models about the roles of communities and the state stemming from the Soviet past affect...

... process, particularly in relation to the development process of Bologna policy actors, has been under-represented in the literature. This article investigates the process of the development of the main policy actors involved in the Bologna reform in the case of Ukraine. The timeframe includes the pre...

..., Ukraine, and Russia, we argue that the “neo-Stalinist frame” has played a major role in denying the rights of Crimean Tatars for self-determination and preservation of their ethnic identity in both pre and post annexation Crimea. The Crimean Tatars counter-framed against neo-Stalinist frame both...

...Yuriy Matsiyevsky What effects does a revolution have on the stability or change of a hybrid regime? Has the Ukraine’s regime changed since the 2014 revolution? To answer these questions I examine the changes in formal and informal institutions and the quantitative and qualitative composition...