'Dependent state formation’ in post-invasion Ukraine
What is the relationship between war-making and state-making in post-invasion Ukraine? This online event will discuss how post-invasion Ukraine has seen a transformation in the nature of the state and its relationship to the Ukrainian economy. The context of the war has led to the Ukrainian state significantly expanding its military and political power while remaining economically dependent. The need to generate revenues for the war has pushed the state to become more extractive, in turn undermining its legitimacy and ideological power vis-à-vis its citizens domestically and abroad. Drawing on research into Ukrainian forced migrants in Romania and Ukrainian military crowdfunding organizations, Taras Fedirko and Volodymyr Artiukh will argue that Ukraine is undergoing a process of ‘dependent state formation’, and propose that conjunctural analysis of wars must pay greater attention to relations of force and the way they make and unmake political and economic relations.
Meet the Speakers and Chair
Dr Volodymyr Artiukh is a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project ‘Emptiness: Living Capitalism and Democracy under (post-)Socialism’ (University of Oxford) and an editor at Commons: Journal of Social Criticism’.
Dr Taras Fedirko is a political and economic anthropologist studying war, oligarchy, and media in Ukraine. He is Lecturer in Organized Crime and Corruption at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. He is an Associate Researcher with PeaceRep’s Ukraine programme and the Conflict and Civicness Research Group, based at LSE IDEAS, the in-house foreign policy think tank of the London School of Economics and Political Science. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9597-550X.
Dr Luke Cooper (@lukecooper100) is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow in International Relations and the director of PeaceRep's Ukraine programme, based at the Conflict and Civicness Research Group in LSE IDEAS, the LSE's in-house foreign policy think tank. He has written extensively on nationalism, authoritarianism and the theory of uneven and combined development, and is the author of Authoritarian Contagion; the Global Threat to Democracy (Bristol University Press, 2021).
Ukraine in global context is an online event series run by PeaceRep’s Ukraine programme
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