1st Edition
Rebel Militias in Eastern Ukraine From Leaderless Groups to Proxy Army
By Martin Laryš
Copyright 2025
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book extends principal-agent theory to the case of pro-Russian rebel militias in Eastern Ukraine.
Russia’s war in Ukraine demonstrates the much-discussed relations between the principal (Russia) and agent (rebel militias) in Eastern Ukraine. Russia’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... Read more
1 Introduction 2 War in Eastern Ukraine as the Delegation of Leaderless Rebellion 3 The Victory of Euromaidan as a Critical Juncture 4 Social Embeddedness of the Pro-Russian Secessionists and Rebel Commanders 5 Extreme Fragmentation in Leaderless Rebellion 6 Solving the Problem of the Fragmentation: Forced Merger 7 Russia’s Proxy Army in the Donbas 8 Conclusion
Biography
Martin Laryš is a researcher at the Institute of Political Studies (IPS), Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He has a PhD from Charles University and is co-author of Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia: Legacies, Forms and Threats (2019).
