Where did Ukraine get the resources it needed to plan, organise and maintain its defence against Russia? How can a country cope with armed aggression when it doesn't have one of the best armies in the world, or significant economic and political stability? These are the central questions that Anna Colin Lebedev answers in her book "Ukraine: the strength of the weak". The author shows how Ukraine has drawn its strength from its structural weaknesses. The resistance of 2022 is based on foundations laid in 2014, with a Ukrainian ready to fight behind every weapon.
Anna Colin Lebedev has a doctorate in political science and is a lecturer in political science at the University of Paris-Nanterre and a researcher at the Institut des sciences sociales du politique. A specialist in Ukrainian and Russian society, her research focuses on two main areas: armed conflict and protest action. Between 2009 and 2019, she was director of international summer schools in the social sciences in Ukraine, and between 2012 and 2014 she was co-director of the Franco-Belarusian Centre for European Studies (CFB) in Minsk. She is the author of several scientific articles and books, including "Le cœur politique des mères: analyse du mouvement des mères de soldats en Russie" (Editions de l'EHESS, 2013) and "Jamais frères? Ukraine and Russia: a post-Soviet tragedy" (Seuil, 2022).
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