Substituting for the State: The Role of Volunteers in Defense Reform in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine
Journal: Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal
Year: 2017

While the role of volunteers in sustaining the Ukrainian armed forces against the backdrop of Russian aggression since 2014 has been widely acknowledged in literature, the effect of volunteer initiatives on the state defense capacity in longer term has not been studied thus far. This article aims to address this gap and explore whether volunteer participation led to institutional strengthening of the Ukrainian defense state capacity or to its weakening. The analysis will conclude that the volunt