Ukraine and the Evaporating Hyphen of Market-Democracy
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2018

This post is part of the series Lessons for Liberalism from the “Illiberal East” Information wars, fake news, kompromat: surprised Ukrainians have found their lexicon for foreign interference spread as loan-words across a putative new Cold War. Narratives of hegemony long familiar in Ukraine have metastasized, and their protagonists—troll hordes, political technologists, the Paul Manaforts and Victoria Nulands—have been set loose far beyond Ukrainian borders. For those who are anxious that liber