CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Liotta, Gaia Kachina |
|---|---|
| Title | Hybrid Regime, Hybrid Warfare? How Russia's Hybrid War Effected Ukraine's Democratic Transition |
| Summary | Are hybrid regimes or hybrid warfare real and how is the existence of such a regime type tied to a tactical form of war, meant to destabilize democratic development? Hybrid regimes are states or regimes in flux that do not fulfill the minimum requirements of democracy. In contrast, hybrid war is defined as a non-traditional military tactic against state and non-state actors that attacks different strata of societal structures economically, politically, militarily, and through social networks and the internet. Within the literature, both terms have often been viewed as forms of conceptual stretching. However, this study seeks to show how hybrid regimes and hybrid war could be a modern reality and certain conditions could make a hybrid regime more susceptible to hybrid war. This study is centered on qualitative, case-based research on democratization and how authoritarian linkage lead to further instability. This study focuses on testing the causal mechanism: domestic internal political actors in Crimea in the South and Donbas in the East that assisted Russia in its hybrid war efforts to break external pressures to democratize and develop stronger authoritarian linkage. This study focuses on a regional rather than state- specific case comparisons as the leverage (density of ties between actors and external pressures of democracy) and linkages (ties of actors to the West) varied between Crimea interregionally and Donbas and Kyiv primarily due to the opinions of political actors and different structural factors (geography, history, culture etc.) that influenced the processes of democratization. |
| Supervisor | Matthijs Bogaards |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/liotta_gaia.pdf |
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