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Credit: Chatham House
As Rosaria Puglisi pointed out in A People’s Army: Civil Society as a Security Actor in Post-Maidan Ukraine, “the large-scale mobilization of Ukrainian society is … arguably EuroMaidan’s most far-reaching legacy” and “civil society has become de facto a security actor,” notes New Eastern Europe, a partner of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).