Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction
David R. Marples

Prelude to War?
William Jay Risch

Hybrid War and Hybrid Law
Alina Cherviatsova

The First Four Years of the Donetsk People’s Republic
Kimitaka Matsuzato

Motivations of Pro-Russian and Pro-Ukrainian Combatants in the Context of the Russian Military Intervention in the Donbas
Oksana Mikheieva

Limited Statehood, Collective Action, and Reconfiguration of Citizenship in Wartime
Nataliia Stepaniuk

Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons and the Future of Donbas
Ernest Gyidel

War Dead and (Inter)-Communal Ethics in the Russian-Ukrainian Borderlands: 2014–2018
Oleksandr Melnyk

Russia's Hybrid Strategy in the Sea of Azov: Divide and Antagonize
Alla Hurska

Russian Private Military Contractors in the Donbas
Sergey Sukhankin

Civil War Settlements and Conflict Resolution in the Donbas
Serhiy Kudelia

List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

David R. Marples is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Reviews

"Overall, this book offers food for thought on a number of important issues relevant to understanding developments in the Donbas and their wider consequences. It is eminently accessible in a way which will make it of interest to more general readers as well as scholars and students of international relations, law and history. Although focused upon the Donbas region in the period prior to the start of the much greater conflict in Ukraine as a whole in 2022, many of the observations carry wider relevance in making sense of the current war."
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/115885/1/usappblog_2022_07_03_book_review_the_war_in_ukraines_donbas_origins.pdf
*LSE Review of Books*

"It is here that Marples’s gifts for editing such a collection shine through. As the book’s title promises, the origins and contexts of the Donbas conflict are elucidated, and the final chapter effectively brings the work to a close by offering possible futures and a better state of peace for all involved—via a negotiated settlement based on power sharing, deployment of peacekeepers and election monitors, amnesty for combatants, and establishment of a truth commission."
https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/reviews/12874234/mcintosh-marples-war-ukraines-donbas-origins-contexts-and-future
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