The Source of Ukraine's Resilience | Foreign Affairs
Ukraine shows that a combination of democracy and decentralization can strengthen central government, even as power shifts away from it. This is especially important to acknowledge as Ukraine begins to think about the enormous task of rebuilding when the war is over.
In this piece for Foreign Affairs, Timofii Brik (Kyiv School of Economics) and I explore the ways decentralized government brought the country together in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.