Five years after: the role of international actors in the “Ukraine Crisis”^*

* The contributions to this Symposium derive from the international workshop “Donbass and Crimea: Status and Perspectives of Ukraine’s Contested Territories” that took place on 26/27 January 2018 in Kyiv, organised by the “German and European Studies” Program at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) and the Research Group “Frozen and Unfrozen Conflicts” of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

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Notes on contributors

Cindy Wittke is Leader of the Research Group Frozen and Unfrozen Conflicts of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, Germany.

Maryna Rabinovych is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Notes

* The contributions to this Symposium derive from the international workshop “Donbass and Crimea: Status and Perspectives of Ukraine’s Contested Territories” that took place on 26/27 January 2018 in Kyiv, organised by the “German and European Studies” Program at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) and the Research Group “Frozen and Unfrozen Conflicts” of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

1 We use the term “Ukraine Crisis” as a general term for addressing “the crisis in and around Ukraine”, introduced by the OSCE. Hence, using “Ukraine Crisis” does not imply any political or legal pre-evaluation regarding the status and nature of the conflicts and/or the conflict parties.

2 Using the term “the West” does not imply that the authors understand the West as a uniform or monolithic bloc or entity, it rather reflects on-going debates and images used in academic as well as public debates.