Author: Ivan Gomza | Journal of Democracy

Ivan Gomza is the head of the public-governance department at the Kyiv School of Economics. He is the author of The Decadence Republic: Ideology of French Integral Nationalism Under the Third Republic (in Ukrainian, 2021).

July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3

Putin’s Inevitable Invasion

Ivan Gomza

Why did Russia invade Ukraine? And why are Russian forces fighting so poorly? The internal logic of its personalist dictatorship is to blame.