What internationalism in the context of the Ukrainian crisis? Wide open eyes against one-eyed “campisms”

Catherine Samary

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2016, vol. 24, issue 1, 89-93

Abstract: Was it correct and efficient on internationalist point of view to chose one “main enemy” (and “camp”) during the Kosovo’s crisis and war (1999) – and in Ukraine, after Maidan’s upsurge, Yanukovich’s fall, Russian's annexation of Crimea and “hybrid war” in Donbas? This article argues against “campist” approaches in both contexts, because they lead to downsizing criticisms of real relations of dominations within the chosen supported “camp”, preventing the establishment of real conditions for popular self-determination. Instead of producing concrete analysis of concrete (changing) situations, “campist” positions tend to underestimate both new international unstable and opaque relations and the relative (even if difficult) autonomy of popular upsurges not to be reduced to “pawns” manipulated by great powers.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/0965156X.2016.1170332

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