Sample: Source Scout (Lvl 2)

Topic: Civil-military relations in Ukraine, 2022-2024 · Discipline: security studies / IR

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#	Source	Type	Why it's relevant
1	Mathers, J. G. (2025). Ukraine and its Military: A Changing Relationship in Wartime.	Journal	Soaring public trust and "civilianisation" of Ukraine's army - the core wartime CMR dynamic.
2	Sanders, D. (2023). Ukraine's third wave of military reform 2016-2022. Defense & Security Analysis 39(3).	Journal	Pre-invasion reform explaining wartime effectiveness and civilian oversight.
3	Boichak, O. (2024). Narratives of Volunteering and Social Change in Wartime Ukraine. Cultural Sociology 18(1).	Journal	Bottom-up view of how volunteering reshaped state-society-military relations.
4	Mikheieva, O. & Kuznetsova, I. (2024). War-time volunteering and population displacement. Voluntary Sector Review.	Journal	Civil society absorbing military-support and IDP functions - civil-military burden-sharing.
5	Beneath the Surface: Spontaneous Volunteering and Its Perceived Impact (2025). Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies.	Journal	Spontaneous volunteering filling official-system gaps; civil-military boundary blurring.
6	Center for Naval Analyses (2025). Wartime Russian Civil-Military Relations.	Report	Russian-side CMR tensions - comparative counterpoint to Ukraine's model.
7	Marshall Center (2024). Russian Civil-Military Relations and the Long Open-Ended War.	Analysis	How protracted war strains Russian CMR; strategic framing for the comparison.
8	CIVIC (2023). Civil-Military Cooperation in Protection of Civilians: The Ukraine Experience.	Report	Operational CIMIC and protection-of-civilians angle.
9	Council on Foreign Relations (2024). Ukraine: Conflict at the Crossroads of Europe and Russia.	Backgrounder	Orientation source for conflict origins and context.
10	CSIS (2024). Thresholds of Survival: The Resistance in Occupied Ukraine.	Analysis	Civil-military resistance dynamics in occupied territory.
11	RAND Corporation. Ukraine (research topic hub).	Research hub	Curated gateway to RAND's empirical Ukraine research.
12	LSE EUROPP Blog (2025). Ukrainian civil society has redefined security in wartime.	Commentary	Accessible synthesis of the societal-security shift underpinning wartime CMR.

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