Who Fights for Governments?: Paramilitary Mobilization in Ukraine and Beyond

Exploring 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.
Revealing the patterns and dynamics of individual mobilization into...