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Dylynsky Memorial Lecture: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Breakup of the Liberal World Order

In this lecture, Lucan Way explains how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 challenged long-held assumptions about the nature of the liberal world order. Many consistently believed that the West could transform illiberal states through economic integration—increased trade and closer political ties with the West were expected to result in the diffusion of democracy and global peace. Such ideas partly motivated an active effort to open up the European economy to Russia in the 1990s. But in fact, this policy made Western states vulnerable to authoritarianism: Instead of the diffusion of democracy from West to East, the result was the spread of authoritarianism from East to West. Integration and the ease with which Vladimir Putin corrupted the European elite facilitated both the rise of populism and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Speaker: Lucan Ahmad Way is Distinguished Professor of Democracy, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His research focuses on global patterns of democracy and dictatorship. Way’s most-recent book (with Steven Levitsky), Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2022) explores the extraordinary durability of autocracies (China, Cuba, USSR) born of violent social revolution. This book was one of TIME magazine’s 33 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2022 and the recipient of the Juan Linz Best Book Prize in the Comparative Study of Democracy and Autocracy. Way’s solo-authored book Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics (Johns Hopkins, 2015) examines the sources of political competition in Ukraine and the rest of the former Soviet Union. His first book, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Steven Levitsky), was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. Way’s work on competitive authoritarianism has been cited more than ten thousand times and has helped stimulate new and wide-ranging research into the dynamics of hybrid democratic-authoritarian rule. Chair and moderator: Tania Plawuszczak-Stech, Managing Editor of Scholarly Publications at CIUS; and Coordinator of the Dylynsky Lecture Series at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Main sponsor: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS); Co-sponsors: Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine and Centre for European and Eurasian Studies.