Cosmopolitan civil societies : an interdisciplinary journal

Abstract

This editorial introduction presents the special issue of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, 'Ukraine's Crossroads: Domestic Shifts and International Strategies in Times of War', which brings together five interdisciplinary contributions examining the profound transformations Ukraine has undergone since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.Migration and forced displacement are foregrounded as defining structural conditions of the conflict, shaping educational adaptation, cultural resilience, digital governance, and strategic public diplomacy in ways that are only beginning to be understood by scholars.Drawing on a broad and growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship, spanning forced migration studies, diaspora politics, national identity, wartime resilience, and democratic consolidation, the introduction situates the five contributions within a rich theoretical and empirical context.Collectively, the articles demonstrate how the experience of war has simultaneously disrupted and galvanised Ukrainian society, forging new forms of identity, solidarity, and institutional capacity under conditions of extreme adversity.This introduction contextualises the contributions within that literature and outlines the conceptual threads that unite them.

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