Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict: The Case of Ukraine

1. Introduction: Regional Diversity, Decentralization and Conflict in Ukraine, Maryna Rabinovych and Hanna Shelest

Part I. Regional Diversity in Ukraine and its Accommodation in Government Policies

2. Regionalism in Ukraine: Historic Evolution, Regional Claim-Making and Center-Periphery Conflict Resolution, Oksana Myshlovska

3. Navigating Ethnopolitical Disputes: Ukraine's Constitutional Court in the Tug-of-War over Language, Andrii Nekoliak and Vello Pettai

4. Crimean Tatars and the Question of National and Ethnic Belonging in Ukraine, Alina Zubkovych

Part II. The "Crisis In and Around Ukraine", Occupied Territories and their Reintegration: the Legal Dimension

5. The Reintegration of Donbas into Ukraine Exercised Through the Means of Post-Violence Reconstruction and Accountability. An International Law Perspective, Tomasz Lachowski

6. The Domestic Dimension of Defining Occupied Territories and its Value for Conflict Transformation in Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, Maryna Rabinovych

Part III. Federalization/Decentralization as a Means of Conflict Resolution. Discursive and Foreign Policy Perspectives

7. Three Faces of Federalism in Foreign Policy. Russian and German Approaches to the "Ukraine Crisis", Nadiia Koval

8. The Dark Side of the Decentralization Reform in Ukraine: Deterring or Facilitating Russia-Sponsored Federalism, Jaroslava Barbieri

Part IV. Decentralization, its Perceptions and the Linkage to Democratization, Modernization and European Integration of Ukraine

9. Signs of Progress: Local Democracy Developments in Ukrainian Cities, Aadne Aasland and Oleksii Lyska

10. Decentralization and a Risk of Local Elite Capture in Ukraine, Max Bader

11. Decentralization Reform: An Effective Vehicle for Modernization and Democratization in Ukraine?, Olga Oleinikova

12. Decentralization in Ukraine and "Bottom Up" European Integration, Anne Pintsch

13. Conclusion, Maryna Rabinovych and Hanna Shelest