Motyl: The EU faces Ukrainian integration and history
After writing last week’s blog, “Yanukovych Faces EU Integration and History,” I was sorely tempted to write this week’s first draft by simply taking last week’s text and substituting “European Union” wherever “Yanukovych” occurred. Now, now, you might say, that’s no way to treat Europe, which, as everyone knows, is the most “decent, liberal, democratic, stable, and prosperous community” (my words from the blog) in world history. After all, these modifiers don’t exactly spring to mind when one thinks of Ukraine’s president. Indeed, you might say their opposites do.