Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict

The Case of Ukraine

  • Book
  • © 2020

Overview

Editors:
  1. Hanna Shelest

    1. Security Studies Programme, Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”, Odesa / Kyiv, Ukraine

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Maryna Rabinovych

    1. Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Provides an understanding of regional diversity issues and their manipulation in triggering the Ukraine-Russia conflict
  • Highlights the manifestations of regional divides-related discourses
  • Brings together insights from history, politics and law

Part of the book series: Federalism and Internal Conflicts (FEINCO)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction: Regional Diversity, Decentralization, and Conflict in and around Ukraine

    • Maryna Rabinovych, Hanna Shelest
    Pages 1-14

  3. Regional Diversity in Ukraine and Its Accommodation in Government Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Regionalism in Ukraine: Historic Evolution, Regional Claim-Making, and Centre–Periphery Conflict Resolution

      • Oksana Myshlovska
      Pages 17-47

    3. Navigating Ethnopolitical Disputes: Ukraine’s Constitutional Court in the Tug-of-War over Language

      • Andrii Nekoliak, Vello Pettai
      Pages 49-79

    4. Crimean Tatars and the Question of National and Ethnic Belonging in Ukraine

      • Alina Zubkovych
      Pages 81-104

  4. The “Crisis In and Around Ukraine”, Occupied Territories and their Reintegration: The Legal Dimension

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Domestic Dimension of Defining Uncontrolled Territories and Its Value for Conflict Transformation in Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine

      • Maryna Rabinovych
      Pages 107-143

    3. The Reintegration of Donbas Through Reconstruction and Accountability. An International Law Perspective

      • Tomasz Lachowski
      Pages 145-183

  5. Federalization / Decentralization as a Tool of Conflict Resolution: Discursive and Foreign Policy Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Three Faces of Federalism in the Foreign Policy: Russian and German Approaches to the “Ukraine Crisis”

      • Nadiia Koval
      Pages 187-210

    3. The Dark Side of Decentralization Reform in Ukraine: Deterring or Facilitating Russia-Sponsored Separatism?

      • Jaroslava Barbieri
      Pages 211-256

  6. Decentralization, Its Perceptions and Linkage to Democratization, Modernization, and European Integration of Ukraine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Decentralization and a Risk of Local Elite Capture in Ukraine

      • Max Bader
      Pages 259-282

    3. Signs of Progress: Local Democracy Developments in Ukrainian Cities

      • Aadne Aasland, Oleksii Lyska
      Pages 283-310

    4. Decentralization Reform: An Effective Vehicle for Modernization and Democratization in Ukraine?

      • Olga Oleinikova
      Pages 311-338

    5. Decentralization in Ukraine and Bottom-Up European Integration

      • Anne Pintsch
      Pages 339-363

    6. Conclusions and Directions for Further Research

      • Maryna Rabinovych, Hanna Shelest
      Pages 365-369

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 371-373
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This edited volume focuses on the links between the ongoing crisis in and around Ukraine, regional diversity, and the reform of decentralization. It provides in-depth insights into the historical constitution of regional diversity and the evolution of center-periphery relationships in Ukraine, the legal qualification of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, and the role of the decentralization reform in promoting conflict resolution, as well as modernization, democratization and European integration of Ukraine. Particular emphasis lies on the securitization of both regional diversity issues and territorial self-government arrangements in terms of Russia’s support for self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. The volume captures the complexity of contemporary “hybrid” conflicts, involving both internal and external aspects, and the hybridization and securitization of territorial self-governance solutions. It thus provides an important contribution to the debate on territorial self-government and conflict resolution.

Reviews

“The text is most informative … . It is recommended to those who what to know what the decentralization reform in Ukraine is about, as well as to those who want to go deeper into problems and risks of decentralization in general.” (Simo Mannila, Eurasian Geography and Economics, June 11, 2021)

"This book is a brilliant and long-awaited attempt to understand how social diversity becomes a problem if it is not integrated into the political design of a state. The contributors of this book present lessons learned from the Ukraine case for all those who are interested in the contemporary theory and practice of nation- and state-building." (Mykhailo Minakov, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA)

"While grand strategies and big theories tend to gloss over complexity, this volume offers a multi-layered analysis of regional post-conflict arrangements in Ukraine. The book’s multi-disciplinary approach is well supported by rich empirical and factual material, which makes for an extremely informative read." (Vsevolod Samokhvalov, Vesalius College Brussels, Belgium)

"In this volume the two editors, both young scholars and political analysts from Ukraine, assemble important voices and informative perspectives from Ukraine and beyond dealing with the politico-legal dimensions, challenges and opportunities of the history, present and future of regional diversity in and around Ukraine." (Cindy Wittke, Leader of the 'Frozen and Unfrozen Conflicts' Research Group, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg, Germany)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Security Studies Programme, Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”, Odesa / Kyiv, Ukraine

    Hanna Shelest

  • Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Maryna Rabinovych

About the editors

Hanna Shelest is Member of the Board at the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” and Editor-in-chief of UA: Ukraine Analytica. Prior to this, she had served for more than 10 years as Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine.

Maryna Rabinovych is a researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Germany. She will join the Leibniz Science Campus “Eastern Europe as a Global Area” as Post-Doc Fellow.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation