In recent decades, the global battle for democracy has produced numerous brave, heroic leaders — Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia, Lech Wałęsa in Poland, Nelson Mandela in South Africa — who have overcome enormous odds to defeat dictators and lead their countries into freedom. Until this year, Ukraine had not produced such a leader.
It’s not that Ukraine fell to autocracy after gaining independence in…
Lucan Way
Lucan Way is a political science professor at the University of Toronto and the author of Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism.