War in Ukraine’s Donbas

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

• Acknowledgements, Introduction David R. MarplesPrelude to War? William Jay RischHybrid War and Hybrid Law Alina CherviatsovaThe First Four Years of the Donetsk People's Republic -Kimitaka MatsuzatoMotivations of Pro-Russian and Pro-Ukrainian Combatants in the Context of the Russian Military Intervention in the Donbas -Oksana MikheievaLimited Statehood, Collective Action, and Reconfiguration of Citizenship in Wartime -Nataliia StepaniukUkrainian Internally Displaced Persons and the Future of Donbas -Ernest GyidelWar 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 HurskaRussian Private Military Contractors in the Donbas -Sergey SukhankinCivil War Settlements and Conflict Resolution in the Donbas -Serhiy KudeliaList of Contributors, Index.

"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