Petro Koshukov

Iran, Ukraine, and the Realities of “Resistance” & “Regime Change”

This article, published in Small Wars Journal in mid-2025, examines the limits of externally driven regime-change strategies through a comparative analysis of Iran and Ukraine. Drawing on Ukraine’s experience of bottom-up resistance, the authors argue that durable political transformation depends on long-term civic mobilisation rather than state-centric or decapitation-focused