Highly personalized relationships among the bureaucracy both civil and military, politicians and few business conglomerates and patron-client networks are at the heart of dominant-coalition power systems. Businesspersons become the junior partners to bureaucrats and politicians. In order to gain control of public resources, elites seeking…

On multiple occasions, Russia had expressed its discontent about Ukraine’s willingness to join NATO. Politely they also served threats. But Ukraine’s comedian turned President Zelenskyy did not have proper political understanding to realize the consequences of his decisions. Now, the Ukrainian people are paying the…