Test Case Ukraine
Europe and Its Values
Edited by Katharina Raabe and Manfred Sapper
Test Case Ukraine / Testfall Ukraine
Europe and Its Values
Edited by Katharina Raabe and Manfred Sapper
Before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 there was the Russian annexation of Crimea and the war in the Donbas. This anthology looks at how we got here, and what the future looks like.
The war in eastern Ukraine is a war situated in the heart of Europe. This became brutally clear when a Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down over the combat zone in July of 2014. Over 300 people lost their lives, most of them Dutch citizens. But there were no consequences that might have stopped the violence and the rapid disintegration of civil conventions, leading to the fall of Donetsk and Luhansk. The events that followed the Maidan revolution in Kiev, from the annexation of Crimea to the...
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The war in eastern Ukraine is a war situated in the heart of Europe. This became brutally clear when a Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down over the combat zone in July of 2014. Over 300 people lost their lives, most of them Dutch citizens. But there were no consequences that might have stopped the violence and the rapid disintegration of civil conventions, leading to the fall of Donetsk and Luhansk. The events that followed the Maidan revolution in Kiev, from the annexation of Crimea to the invasion of Novoazovsk by Russian troops, shook the foundations of the European postwar order: territorial integrity, sovereignty, security and peace seem to have been suspended. Hostilities have resumed between Russia and the West.
How did this come about? And what does this mean for our future coexistence in Europe? Writers and journalists search for answers, with contributions from authors such as Alice Bota, Andreas Kappeler, Kateryna Mishchenko, Herfried Münkler and Serhiy Zhadan.
How did this come about? And what does this mean for our future coexistence in Europe? Writers and journalists search for answers, with contributions from authors such as Alice Bota, Andreas Kappeler, Kateryna Mishchenko, Herfried Münkler and Serhiy Zhadan.
»This fantastic book creates an irresistible desire to read it line by line in order to understand how the unimaginable was able to emerge and spread into an uncontrollable threat for Europe and large parts of the world.« BuchMarkt
»The anthology Test Case Ukraine combines communicative rationality with empathy and self-reflection, and is thus a prime example of the qualities of the European public sphere for which the demonstrators on Maidan were fighting.« Bert Rebhandl, Der Freitag
»Test Case Ukraine … sheds light on some of the dark spots that Ukraine still represents.« Barbara Oertel , taz. die tageszeitung
»Test Case Ukraine is a collection of first-person perspectives, each of which brings out a different nuance of this conflict. Elena Racheva’s report is particularly worth reading...« Inga Pylypchuk, welt.de
»The anthology Test Case Ukraine combines communicative rationality with empathy and self-reflection, and is thus a prime example of the qualities of the European public sphere for which the demonstrators on Maidan were fighting.« Bert Rebhandl, Der Freitag
»Test Case Ukraine … sheds light on some of the dark spots that Ukraine still represents.« Barbara Oertel , taz. die tageszeitung
»Test Case Ukraine is a collection of first-person perspectives, each of which brings out a different nuance of this conflict. Elena Racheva’s report is particularly worth reading...« Inga Pylypchuk, welt.de
»This fantastic book creates an irresistible desire to read it line by line in order to understand how the unimaginable was able to emerge and spread into an uncontrollable threat for Europe and large parts of the world.« BuchMarkt
»The anthology Test Case Ukraine combines communicative rationality with empathy and self-reflection, and is thus a prime example of the qualities of the European public sphere for which the demonstrators on Maidan were fighting.« Bert...
»The anthology Test Case Ukraine combines communicative rationality with empathy and self-reflection, and is thus a prime example of the qualities of the European public sphere for which the demonstrators on Maidan were fighting.« Bert...
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2015, 256 pages