Rebel Militias in Eastern Ukraine: From Leaderless Groups to Proxy Army

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032710914" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032710914</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032710914" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781032710914</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Rebel Militias in Eastern Ukraine: From Leaderless Groups to Proxy Army

Original language description

This book extends principal-agent theory to the case of pro-Russian rebel militias in Eastern Ukraine. Russia&apos;s war in Ukraine demonstrates the much-discussed relations between the principal (Russia) and agent (rebel militias) in Eastern Ukraine. Russia&apos;s aggression against Ukraine in 2014 was a frontal challenge to the post-Cold War European regional order, and since 2022 it has offered a challenge to the global order. Filling the gap in the literature on indirect warfare and insurgencies, this book offers systematic insights into structures and relations within the leaderless rebellion in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. It introduces the concept of the delegation of leaderless rebellion, based on the argument that it is a specific kind of rebellion when local elites do not actively participate as the leaders of the rebellion. Random people, without any fighting or political experience and with no social embeddedness, become rebel commanders, which means the principal - Russia - faces serious challenges but also benefits from opportunities to exercise complete control over the rebel forces and administration.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-1-03-271090-7

Number of pages

204

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS book

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