Gray zone mediation in the Ukraine crisis: comparing Crimea and Donbas
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2019

This chapter examines mediation efforts in the Ukraine with a specific focus on the Crimea and the Donbas (Eastern Ukraine). The Ukraine crisis captures the essence of gray zone conflict in which parties and strategies are not easily identified and mediation efforts prove difficult, given the complexity, number, and array of competing stakeholders. In comparing the two cases we find that one of the major obstacles facing mediators in gray zone conflicts is situational ambiguity regarding the tec