Ukraine: contested nationhood in a European Context.

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

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Putin’s War on Ukraine.

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/

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The Art of Sanctions.

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

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The EU´s chair was missing at the Ukraine table. 

Howorth, Jolyon (2022)

 

Jolyon discusses the weaknesses of the European Union as shown by the war against Ukraine. A lack of strength and unity towards Russia and the EU being not a military or security actor is noticed by Russia and the US.

“The crisis in Ukraine has highlighted the weaknesses of the EU as an international actor. Although the EU is an economic, commercial and regulatory giant, it has not succeeded in emerging as a significant military or security actor—despite having announced a ‘common foreign and security policy’ 30 years ago. In particular, it is deeply divided over policy towards Russia. Moreover, attempts to devise an overall policy for its neighbourhood, and in particular an ‘Eastern Partnership’ focused on the borderline states between the Union and Russia, have been widely judged as failures. In the showdown between Russia and the West over Ukraine, the EU per se has been marginalised by both Moscow and Washington. Various EU member states have embraced different preferences with respect to the potential resolution of the Ukraine crisis. In the context of potential discussions, demanded by Vladimir Putin, on a ‘new security order’ for Eurasia, the EU’s absence is tragic.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17816858221089371 (21.02.2023).

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Backfire

Demarais, Agathe (2022),   ISBN:9780231199902, Columbia University Press

 

Based on the US instrumentalisation of sanctions as a low cost measure in different international contexts, the author discusses the impact the sanctions have on the US. It also covers sanctions taken to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

“Backfire explores the surprising ways sanctions affect multinational companies, governments, and ultimately millions of people around the world. Drawing on interviews with experts, policy makers, and people in sanctioned countries, Agathe Demarais examines the unintended consequences of the use of sanctions as a diplomatic weapon. The proliferation of sanctions spurs efforts to evade them, as states and firms seek ways to circumvent U.S. penalties. This is only part of the story. Sanctions also reshape relations between countries, pushing governments that are at odds with the U.S. closer to each other—or, increasingly, to Russia and China.”

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/backfire/9780231553339

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From the Fires of War, Ukraine´s Azov Movement and the Global Far Right.

Colborne, Michael (2022),  Ibidem Press

 

The Azov movement grew from a militia and football hooligans to a social movement. Now, it is a role model for the global far right. The book discusses how the movement could and is exploiting the Ukraines social and political situation including its action in the war. The Author considers the Azov movement as the most dangerous far-right movement in the world.

“From its roots in revolution and war, Ukraine’s Azov movement has grown from a militia of fringe far-right figures and football hooligans fending off Russian-backed forces into a multipronged social movement that has become the envy of the global far right. In this first English-language book on the Azov movement, Michael Colborne explains how Azov came to be and continues to exploit Ukraine’s fractured social and political situation—including the only ongoing war on European soil – to build one of the most ambitious and dangerous far-right movements in the world.”

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/from-the-fires-of-war/9783838215082

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Russian Energy Chains, The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union.

Balmaceda, Margarita M. (2021),  ISBN: 9780231197496, Columbia University

 

This book helps to understand the power Russia has through its Energy chain. The book offers an evaluation of Russia’s value chain which helps to understand the full cycle of exporting energy and stakeholders who are benefiting from it. By analysing the export of gas, oil and coal, it shows how that energy is used as a threat and how it became a key driver for political development in modern day Russia. 

“Russia’s use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand this danger without also understanding the opportunity that Russian energy represents. From corruption-related profits to transportation-fee income to subsidised prices, many within these states have benefited by participating in Russian energy exports. To understand Russian energy power in the region, it is necessary to look at the entire value chain—including production, processing, transportation, and marketing—and at the full spectrum of domestic and external actors involved, from Gazprom to regional oligarchs to European Union regulators.”

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/russian-energy-chains/9780231197496

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Humanitarian Aid in times of war: organisation and ignorance

Pawlak, Mikolaj, (2022)

 

The author of this paper focuses on the organisation of aid for Ukrainian refugees in Poland. The question that is the basis of this paper is: Why, in the case of Ukrainian refugees, is there almost unanimity in organising aid, while in the past other categories of refugees were denied aid? 

https://doi.org/10.1177/017084062210991

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The humanitarian crisis in Kharkiv

Chumachenko Dmytro and Chumachenko Tetyana, (2022)

 

This paper emphasises that the international community must ensure the supply of humanitarian aid from European countries. Russia must comply with international humanitarian law, ensure the protection of the civilian population, and refrain from unlawful attacks. The space for neutral, impartial, and independent humanitarian action must be protected so that humanitarian organisations can have access to civilians.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o796

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Responding to the War in Ukraine

Anthony Fong and Kirsten Johnson, (2022)

 

This paper covers how people and organisations can contribute and help respond to the war in Ukraine. It is known that one’s well-intended actions can do harm if not coordinated with organisations experienced in disaster response. Even for licensed emergency physicians, humanitarian-aid work requires specific training to be most effective.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43678-022-00319-8 

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