Saez, Patrick (2022)

This paper highlights the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine that triggered extraordinary levels of solidarity. The challenges of neutrality principles, the political responses of neighbour countries and the territories where humanitarian organisations operate are analysed. Moreover, it describes how humanitarian actors can navigate the dilemas like public narratives, donorship, architecture, operating models and technology.

https://cdn.odi.org/media/documents/Navigating_Ukrainian_dilemmas_in_the_Ukraine_crisis.pdf

N. Kumar, Bernadette (2022)

“The invasion of Ukraine has unleashed a humanitarian crisis and the impact is devastating for millions displaced in Ukraine and for those fleeing the country. Receiving countries in Europe are reeling with shock and disbelief and trying at the same time to grapple with the reality of providing for a large, unplanned, unprecedented number of refugees. There is a need to constantly assess the situation on the ground. Therefore, the Lancet Migration European Regional Hub conducted rapid interviews with key informants to identify these needs, and in collaboration with the World Health Organization Health and Migration Programme, summarized how these could be addressed. This viewpoint provides a summary of the situation in receiving countries and the technical guidance required that could be useful for providing assistance in the current refugee crisis.”

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100403

Essar, Mohammad Yasir et. all. (2022)

“As of the 24th of February 2022, the war in Ukraine has increased the risk for infectious diseases outbreaks in the country and beyond. The disruption of healthcare services, the destruction of critical infrastructure, the displacement of millions of civilians and the crowded living conditions in bunkers pose a formiddable threat to public health. Infections are emphasized due to the low rates of vaccination against COVID-19 and the high prevalence of chronic infections such as Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Ukraine compared to the WHO Europe region. Collaboration between authorities and humanitarian organizations is necessary, in order to strengthen epidemiological surveillance and deploy vital resources that are required for the prevention and the management of infections.”

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103950

Juric, Tado (2022), Athens Journal of Τechnology & Engineering

“This paper shows that Big Data and the so-called tools of digital demography, such as Google Trends (GT) and insights from social networks such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, can be useful for determining, estimating, and predicting the forced migration flows to the EU caused by the war in Ukraine.”

https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.15.22272428

Ramani, Samuel (2023), ISBN: 9781787388512, HURST.

“The mental health consequences of the war in Ukraine will be enormous. Mental health professionals who are providing care for people in Ukraine, or those resettled elsewhere, may require access to standardised and validated assessment tools. We have developed a repository of mental health measures that are available in Ukrainian, Russian and English and can be accessed at www.traumameasuresglobal.com/ukraine.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13591045221097519 (21.02.2023)

Hauter, Jakob (2021), ISBN: 9783838213835 Ibidem Press.

This is a collection of papers discussing the fight in Donbas in the period of 2014-2021. It offers an introduction and key points of the academic debate around the conflict and by this the origin of the Russian war against Ukraine.

“This volume of collected papers takes stock of what has become known about the war in eastern Ukraine’s Donets Basin (Donbas) between April 2014 and mid-2020. It provides an introduction to the conflict and illustrates the key point of contention in the academic debate surrounding it—the question whether this war is primarily an internal Ukrainian phenomenon or the result of a covert Russian invasion. The contributions by recognized specialists from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and Japan offer multifaceted views and insights into this long-lasting conflict for both expert readers and those who are new to the topic.”

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/civil-war-interstate-war-hybrid-war/9783838213835

Schuette, Leonard August (2022)

“The article theories that institutional actors can shape overlap if they possess sufficient institutional capacity and face a favourable opportunity structure. Whether institutional actors embrace or resist overlap, in turn, depends on their perception of the nature of the domain expansion of the other international organisation. Relying on 20 interviews with senior officials, the article probes the argument against the case of the growing overlap between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union resulting from the latter’s recent security and defence initiatives.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13691481221079188 (21.02.2023)

Schmid, Ulrich (2020), ISBN: 9780367199807, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge.

Schmid explains the history of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and concentrates here on the importance of the different local cultures. Key Factor is the remembrance of the Soviet past. It presents different understandings of the Ukrainian nationhood based on different interpretations -Russian, Habsburg, Polish- and looks at the Ukrainian political and economical options for the future. It was written before the Russian War against Ukraine.

“Ukraine: Contested Nationhood in a European Context challenges the common view that Ukraine is a country split between a pro-European West and a pro-Russian East. The volume navigates the complicated cultural history of Ukraine and highlights the importance of regional traditions for an understanding of the current political situation. A key feature is the different politics of memory that prevail in each region, such as the Soviet past being presented as either a foreign occupation or a benign socialist project.“

https://europarl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=32EPA_INST:32EPA_V1&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&tab=Everything&docid=alma991001215040304886

Ramani, Samuel (2023), ISBN: 9781787388512, HURST.

The book discusses the reason why Putin started the war based on domestic factors rather than systematic factors. It states that Putin wants to unify Russians based on common principles which inspired the military actions Russia took over the last decades. 

“This book argues that Putin’s policy of global counter-revolution is driven not by systemic factors, such as preventing NATO expansion, but domestic ones: the desire to unite Russians around common principles and consolidate his personal brand of authoritarianism. This objective has inspired military interventions in Crimea, Donbas and Syria, and now all-out war against Kyiv.”

https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/putins-war-on-ukraine/

Nephew, Richard (2023), ISBN: 9780231180276, Columbia University Press

Nephew is offering a practical framework for planning and implementing sanctions. The book emphasises the relevance of an initial sanction strategy and how to set up sanctions that can be adjusted over time. It also offers a structure for evaluating if the sanctions were effective. It explores the connection between pain (introduced by the sanctions) and resolve (resist, tolerate or overcome) the pain.

“Nations and international organisations are increasingly using sanctions as a means to achieve their foreign policy aims. However, sanctions are ineffective if they are executed without a clear strategy responsive to the nature and changing behaviour of the target. In The Art of Sanctions, Richard Nephew offers a much-needed practical framework for planning and applying sanctions that focuses not just on the initial sanctions strategy but also, crucially, on how to calibrate along the way and how to decide when sanctions have achieved maximum effectiveness.”

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-art-of-sanctions/9780231180269