The Saakashvili saga exemplifies how easily one can stray from democratic promise to semi-authoritarian rabble rousing.


Lincoln Mitchell is an associate research scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
The Saakashvili saga exemplifies how easily one can stray from democratic promise to semi-authoritarian rabble rousing.

The hard work begins in Ukraine both for the West and the new Kiev administration.
![The Ukrainian people's victory notwithstanding, doubt clouds the future of the Kiev government, write the authors [Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20143344752677734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)