Democracy Paradox Lucan Way on Ukraine. Democracy in Hard Places
The war is never going to really end. Because even in the most optimistic scenario where Ukraine regains its territory and it goes back to the 1991 borders, Russia is almost certainly going to present a permanent threat to Ukrainian sovereignty. I think objectively it will. But even if objectively it wasn’t, after such an invasion, you can imagine the political environment's going to treat it as one.
Lucan Way
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Lucan Way is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He coauthored (along with Steven Levitsky) Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. He has a new book also coauthored with Steven Levitsky due this fall called Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism. He is the author of the chapter "Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine: Democratic Moments in the Former Soviet Union" in the book Democracy in Hard Places.
Key Highlights
- What makes Zelensky such a special leader?
- Why wasn't Ukraine considered more democratic before Russia's invasion?
- How has the war impacted democracy in Ukraine?
- What role did Ukraine's ethnic pluralism contribute to democratization?
- What challenges will Ukrainian democracy face after its war with Russia?
Key Links
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way
Follow the Lucan Way on Twitter @LucanWay
"The Rebirth of the Liberal World Order?" by Lucan Way in the Journal of Democracy
Democracy in Hard Places edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud
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