Who fights for governments? explaining paramilitary mobilization in Ukraine and beyond / Huseyn Aliyev.
| Author/creator | Aliyev, Huseyn author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic/Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xii, 249 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Explaining paramilitary mobilization in Ukraine and beyond |
| Contents | Toward the theory of paramilitary mobilization -- Researching paramilitary mobilization -- The onset -- The active combat phase -- Cessation -- What do the numbers say? -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: The 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine |
| Abstract | Exploring why, when and under which circumstances individuals decide to take up arms mobilizing for pro-government militias, Huseyn Aliyev draws on insights from long-standing ethnographic fieldwork among former and active members of Ukraine's pro-government volunteer battalions, and an original database of militias' obituaries, to offer this complex and in-depth explanation of the phenomenon of pro-government mobilization.Revealing the patterns and dynamics of individual mobilization into pro-government militias, this study is critical to understanding how the Ukrainian nation succeeded in repelling Russian aggression both in 2014-15 and in 2022, but also essential to explaining how and why hundreds of pro-government militias emerge in the context of armed conflicts in different parts of the world. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Aliyev, Huseyn. Who fights for governments? New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 9781350498433 |
| Genre/form | Case studies |
| Genre/form | Interviews |
| LCCN | 2024050772 |
| ISBN | 9781350498419 |
| ISBN | 1350498416 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781350498440 paperback |
| ISBN | 1350498440 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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