After Ukraine’s 2013–14 Revolution of Dignity, much Western attention to Ukrainian domestic policies has been focused on the country’s “Europeanization” in the narrow and technical sense of the word, i.e. to its adoption of EU standards and legislation. In contrast, a parallel major transformation with no direct relation to Ukraine’s EU association and accession—a multidimensional local governance and territorial reform—has been receiving less journalistic and scholarly coverage. That is in spite of the fact that the gradual decentralization process that Ukraine’s first post-Euromaidan government started in April 2014 is an exceptionally far-ranging and already advanced transition. It redefines not only Ukrainian center-periphery interactions, but also state-society as well as government-citizen relations.
This collected volume is one of the first of its kind and presents eleven narrowly focused research papers by Oleksandra Deineko, Melanie Mierzejewski-Voznyak, Maryna Rabinovych, Aadne Aasland, Max Bader, Igor Dunayev, Yuriy Palekha, Oleksii Sydorchuk, and the editors. The chapters illustrate specific problems as well as repercussions of Ukraine’s ongoing local governance reform ranging from fiscal governance to party politics as well as wartime challenges.
Andreas Umland
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7916-4646
Valentyna Romanova
Dr. Valentyna Romanova studied Political Science in Kyiv and Edinburgh. She lives in Tokyo and is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies—Japan External Trade Organization. Romanova is co-editor of the Annual Reviews of Regional Elections of Regional and Federal Studies. She has published in, among other peer-reviewed outlets, Post-Soviet Affairs, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Politics, Survival, The Ideology and Politics Journal, Politychni doslidzhennya, Demokratizatsiya, Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, and Zeitschrift für Politik.
Aadne Asland
Max Bader
Oleksandra Deineko
Igor Dunayev
Melanie G. Mierzejewski-Voznyak
Eleonora Narvselius, PhD, is an anthropologist affiliated with the Centre for Language and Literature and Center for European Studies at Lund University. She is the author of Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L’viv: Narratives, Identity and Power (Lexington Books, 2012), and co-editor (with Gelinada Grinchenko) of Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory: Formulas of Betrayal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She recently participated in the international project Memory of Vanished Population Groups and Societies in Today’s East- and Central European Urban Environments. Memory Treatment and Urban Planning in Lviv, Chernivci, Chisinau and Wrocław (funded by the Swedish research foundation Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2011-2014). Gergana Dimova holds a PhD in politics from Harvard University. She is currently an associate lecturer in global politics at the University of Winchester in the UK and has previously taught at the University of Cambridge. Her forthcoming book, titled Democracy beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age, examines the crisis of democracy through the prism of media allegations and government accountability. Gergana’s academic articles and media expertise have been featured in Demokratizatsiya, Observatorio, New Atlanticist, and Huffington Post, among others. Dr Dimova is the book reviews editor for the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society. Andreas Umland (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” (ibidem Press 2004-). His papers have appeared in, among other journals, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, Journal of Democracy, Europe-Asia Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, and Russian Politics and Law.
Yuriy Palekha
Maryna Rabinovych
George Soroka received his PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in 2014. He is currently working on a book regarding how contentious historical interpretations function in defining contemporary foreign-policy objectives between Poland, Ukraine, and Russia.
Tomasz Stêpniewski is an associate professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He is also the co-editor (along with Soroka) of the book Ukraine after Maidan: Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security (Stuttgart: ibidem 2018).
Rory Finnin is University Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Ukrainian Studies and Founding Director of the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme at the University of Cambridge.
Ivan Kozachenko is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the project “Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies,” which is based at the University of Cambridge and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Gergana Dimova is an associate lecturer in global politics at the University of Winchester (United Kingdom). She received her PhD in political science from Harvard University and was a Jeremy Haworth Research Fellow at St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge.
Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society”.
Julie Fedor is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne.
Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
Oleksii Sydorchuk
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| Edited by | Andreas Umland, Valentyna Romanova |
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| Series edited by | Andreas Umland |
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| Contributions by | Aadne Asland, Max Bader, Oleksandra Deineko, Igor Dunayev, Melanie G. Mierzejewski-Voznyak, Yuriy Palekha, Maryna Rabinovych, Oleksii Sydorchuk |
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200
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210,0 mm x 148,0 mm
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06.05.2024
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Paperback
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
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English
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978-3-8382-1162-6
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260 g
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