{"product_id":"who-fights-for-governments-paramilitary-mobilization-in-ukraine-and-beyond-9781350498419","title":"Who Fights for Governments?: Paramilitary Mobilization in Ukraine and Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003eExploring why, when and under which circumstances individuals decide to take up arms mobilizing for pro-government militias, Huseyn Aliyev draws on insights from long-standing ethnographic fieldwork among former and active members of Ukraine's pro-government volunteer battalions, and an original database of militias' obituaries, to offer this complex and in-depth explanation of the phenomenon of pro-government mobilization. \u003cbr\u003eRevealing the patterns and dynamics of individual mobilization into pro-government militias, this study is critical to understanding how the Ukrainian nation succeeded in repelling Russian aggression both in 2014-15 and in 2022, but also essential to explaining how and why hundreds of pro-government militias emerge in the context of armed conflicts in different parts of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHuseyn Aliyev\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer of Central \u0026amp; East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603100139794,"sku":"9781350498419","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9b0a003d-e8b2-4cbe-a143-65eb9756be59.jpg?v=1757424232","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/who-fights-for-governments-paramilitary-mobilization-in-ukraine-and-beyond-9781350498419","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}