Intro -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical approach to civil society -- 1.1 Definition of civil society -- 1.2 Civil society organizations -- 1.3 Civil society and democratization -- 1.3.1 External democracy promotion -- 1.3.2 Strengths and weaknesses of "external democracy promotion" -- 2 Theory of civil society in Ukraine -- 2.1 Weakness of civil society in post-communist Europe -- 2.2 Social capital and civil society -- 2.2.1 A definition of social capital by Lin Nan -- 2.2.2 Weak civil society or lacking social capital? -- 2.3 Ukrainian active civil society -- 3 Civil society in today's Ukraine -- 3.1 2013-2014: Civil society 2.0 -- 3.2 Civil society and the war relief work -- 3.3 Civil society and the IDP crisis -- 4 Empirical approach to social capital in Ukraine -- 4.1 Method -- 4.2 Interviews evaluation -- 4.2.1 Actor/agent relations and homophile/heterophile relations -- 4.2.2 Disappointment and/or mistrust -- 4.2.3 Investment in public good -- 4.2.4 Goals -- 4.2.5 Network and the levels of trust -- 4.2.6 Resources -- 4.2.7 Structure of CSOs -- 4.2.8 Future trends -- 4.3 General outlook on Ukrainian civil society -- Conclusion and outlook -- Appendix -- Bibliography