World Affairs Journal: Kyiv cracking down and cracking up
Cracking down on civil society is a surefire way of reducing information flows to rulers and, thus, of enhancing their incompetence, according to Alexander Motyl.
The dialectic was alive and well in Ukraine in 2010. On the one hand, the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych appeared strong, moving decisively toward authoritarianism. On the other hand, it appeared weak, manifesting a breathtaking serial incompetence. Read the story here.
