Susan Stewart  
  Explaining the Low Intensity of Ethnopolitical Conflict in Ukraine vergrößerte Ansicht in neuem Fenster    
  Studien zu Konflikt und Kooperation in Osteuropa, Band 12    
   
  257 p., Münster, LIT Verlag, 2005  
  ISBN: 3-8258-8331-0  
     

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Abstract :

This study analyzes the reasons for the relative lack of ethnopolitical conflict in Ukraine after 1989. Starting from the assumption that such confict would have required higher levels of ethnic group rnobilization, the author utilizes a multifactor model to explain why such mobilization remained extremely low in rnost cases. She reaches the conclusion that the interplay of historical and international factors was in large part responsible for the low mobilization levels.

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FOREWORD BY THE EDITOR
 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
 
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
 
CHAPTER 2: THEORY AND METHODS
LITERATURE ON NATIONALITY ISSUES IN POST-SOVIET UKRAINE
DEFINITIONAL ISSUES
Conflict
Ethnic vs. Ethnopolitical Conflict
Violence
CONDITIONS AND CAUSES OF CONFLICT
Explanatory Approaches Emphasizing One Factor
Multicausal Approaches
THE TED ROBERT GURR MODEL OF ETHNOPOLITICAL MOBILIZATION
METHODOLOGY
 
CHAPTER 3: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY BACKGROUND
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN UKRAINE 1989-99
October 1989 - December 1991: Independence Pending
January 1992 - June 1996: The Path to a Constitution
July 1996 - November 1999: A Time of Increasing Contradictions
Epilogue
HISTORICAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND OF SELECTED REGIONS OF UKRAINE
Crimea and the Crimean Tatars
Transcarpathia and the Hungarians
Northern Bukovvna and the Romanians
Eastern Ukraine and the Russians
CONCLUSIONS
 
CHAPTER 4: THE UKRAINIAN LEGAL CONTEXT IN THE FIELD OF NATIONALITY POLICY
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF NATIONALITY POLICY BETWEEN 1991 AND 1999
GENERAL LEGAL DOCUMENTS ON ETHNIC MINORITIES
Ethnopolitical Concept
General Legislation on Ethnic Minority Rights
Bilateral and Other International Treaties
LEGISLATION ON LANGUAGE USE
LEGISLATION IN THE CITIZENSHIP SPHERE
LEGISLATION ON POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
 
CHAPTER 5: THE REALM OF LANGUAGE ISSUES
THE ROMANIANS IN NORTHERN BUKOVYNA
The Situation in Romanian-language Educational Institutions
Concerns in the Realm of Higher Education
THE HUNGARIANS IN TRANSCARPATHIA
The Situation in Hungarian-language Schools
Opportunities for Higher Education in the Hungarian Language
THE RUSSIANS AND RUSSOPHONES IN EASTERN UKRAINE
The Evolution of Russophone Activists 1990-99
Language Status
Language Use in the Educational Sphere
CONCLUSIONS
 
CHAPTER 6: CITIZENSHIP ISSUES
THE RUSSIANS: DUAL CITIZENSHIP LOSES ITS SALIENCE
THE CRIMEAN TATARS: UKRAINIAN POLICY CAUSES CONFLICT
Problems Surrounding the Absence of Ukrainian Citizenship
Crimean Tatar Mobilization Efforts
The Ukrainian-Uzbek Agreement
CONCLUSIONS
 
CHAPTER 7: THE POLITICAL REPRESENTATION OF ETHNIC MINORITIES
THE ROMANIANS
Representation on the Central Level: The Ukrainian Parliament
Regional and Local Representation
THE HUNGARIANS IN TRANSCARPATHIA
Representation on the Central Level: Parliament and Inter-governmental Connnission
Representation on the Regional and Local Levels
THE CRIMEAN TATARS
Representation on the Central Level
Representation on the Regional and Local Levels
Representation via Ethnic Organizations: The Struggle for Official
Recognition
CONCLUSIONS
 
CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS
 
APPENDIX
Table 2: Native Language Data for Ukraine in 2001
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MONOGRAPHS, EDITED VOLUMES, AND ARTICLES
DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS
INTERVIEWS AND SPEECHES
PERIODICALS AND INTERNET DOCUMENTATION SERVICES

The author:

Susan Stewart is Research Associate at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Germany.