Ethnopolitical resilience of Ukraine (analytical report)

The crises accompanying the formation of the ethnopolitical system of modern Ukraine and its core subject – the Ukrainian nation – have paradoxically accelerated this process. The largest of such crises, caused by Russian aggression in 2014 and its full-scale escalation in 2022, is still ongoing. Its ultimate consequences are difficult to predict, yet doing so is both important and necessary.

State authorities, local self-government institutions, and civil society actors are currently unable to fully exercise their competences across the entire sovereign territory of the country. Millions of citizens have become external migrants of the war—refugees, remain in temporarily occupied territories, have been deported by the aggressor to its territory, or were forced to seek refuge there while fleeing combat zones.

The proposed analytical report provides a concise summary of the findings of the eponymous study on the ethnopolitical challenges of the war, as well as the challenges likely to arise when the power of arms gives way to the power of diplomacy. The authors’ proposed responses to these challenges may be useful to institutions and officials within Ukraine’s ethnopolitical system, as well as to all those for whom the resilience and, consequently, the success of the Ukrainian state and nation is of vital importance.