ABSTRACT
Writing thirty years ago, Gerald Caiden complied a list of administrative problems facing states made newly independent by decolonialization.1 This list, which includes problems such as a lack of experienced administrators, the need for systemic reform, transition pains, an increase in corruption, and the need for international aid, is also applicable to post-Soviet Ukraine. Further depicting modern Ukraine, Caiden explained how these new states attempted to cram hundreds of years of Western development and experience into less than a decade of reform, and how "in this, most were doomed to failure. They attempted too much too quickly and fell victim to their own maladministration.,,2 As the difficulties of reform became clear in these states, many lost the will to continue reform, with disastrous consequences.
