Forging Rights in a New Democracy: Ukrainian Students Between Freedom and Justice

The last two decades have been marked by momentous changes in forms of governance throughout the post—Soviet region. Ukraine's political system, like those of other formerly socialist states of Eastern Europe, has often been characterized as being "in transition," moving from a Soviet system to one more closely aligned with Western models. Anna Fournier challenges this view, investigating what is increasingly recognized as a critical aspect of contemporary global rights discourse: the activ...