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• The Democratic Instinct in the 21^st Century
  by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (July 2010)



• Lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq
  by Zalmay Khalilzad (July 2010)



• Liberation Technology
  by Larry Diamond (July 2010)



• Democracy and Deep Divides
  by Nathan Glazer (April 2010)



• Do Muslims Vote Islamic? (with Appendix)
  by Charles Kurzman and Ijlal Naqvi (April 2010)



• The Ex-Presidents
  by Lisa Anderson (April 2010)



• Populism, Pluralism, and Liberal Democracy
  by Marc F. Plattner (January 2010)



• Why Are There No Arab Democracies?
  by Larry Diamond (January 2010)



• Iran in Ferment: The Green Wave
  by Ali Afshari and H. Graham Underwood (October 2009)



• Iran in Ferment: Cracks in the Regime
  by Abbas Milani (October 2009)



• Iran in Ferment: Civil Society's Choice
  by Ladan Boroumand (October 2009)



• An Accidental Advance? South Africa's 2009 Elections
  by Steven Friedman (October 2009)



• China Since Tiananmen: The Massacre’s Long Shadow
  by Jean Philippe-Béja (July 2009)



• China Since Tiananmen: Authoritarian Impermanence
  by Andrew J. Nathan (July 2009)



• Malaysia’s Electoral Upheaval
  by James Chin and Wong Chin Huat (July 2009)



• Religion and Democracy
  by Jean Bethke Elshtain (April 2009)



• Reading Russia: The Siloviki in Charge
  by Andrei Illarionov (April 2009)



• Reading Russia: The Rules of Survival
  by Ivan Krastev (April 2009)



• Democracy Assistance: Political vs. Developmental?
  by Thomas Carothers (January 2009)



• Can Cuba Change? Ferment in Civil Society
  by Carl Gershman and Orlando Gutierrez (January 2009)



• Is Democracy Possible?
  by Bruce Gilley (January 2009)



• Thailand Since the Coup
  by Thitinan Pongsudhirak (October 2008)



• Georgia's Year of Turmoil
  Miriam Lanskoy and Giorgi Areshidze (October 2008)



• Islamist Parties and Democracy: Three Kinds of Movements
  by Tamara Cofman Wittes (July 2008)



• Islamist Parties and Democracy: Going Back to the Origins
  by Husain Haqqani & Hillel Fradkin (July 2008)
  
  
• The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions
  by Lucan Way (July 2008)
  
  
• Russia's Transition to Autocracy
  by Pierre Hassner (April 2008)
  
  
• Progress and Retreat in Africa: Challenges of a "Frontier" Region
  by Richard Joseph (April 2008)
  
  
• The Arroyo Imbroglio in the Philippines
  by Paul D. Hutchcroft (January 2008)
  
  
• Turkey Divided
  by Zeyno Baran (January 2008)
  
  
• Senegal: The Return of Personalism
  by Penda Mbow (January 2008)
  *This is a corrected text of the print and original online version of this essay, which lacked proper citation for some of its sources. This is the only version that should be used for citation or further dissemination.
  
  
• Is East-Central Europe Backsliding? From Democracy Fatigue to Populist Backlash
  by Jacques Rupnik (October 2007)
  
  
• Is East-Central Europe Backsliding? The Strange Death of the Liberal Consensus
  by Ivan Krastev (October 2007)
  *This is a corrected text of the print and original online version of this essay, which lacked proper citation for some of its sources. This is the only version that should be used for citation or further dissemination.
  
  
• Iran's Resilient Civil Society: The Untold Story of the Fight for Human Rights
  by Ladan Boroumand (October 2007)
  
  
• Essays on China
  by Henry S. Rowen, Minxin Pei, and Dali L. Yang (July 2007)
  
  
• The Institutionalization of Political Power in Africa
  by Daniel N. Posner and Daniel J. Young (July 2007)
  
  
• The Rise of Judicial Sovereignty
  by Pratap Bhanu Mehta (April 2007)
  
  
• Battling KGB, Inc.
  by Garry Kasparov (April 2007)
  
  
• After the Leviathan
  by Leon Aron (April 2007)
  
  
• Putin's Invented Opposition
  by Stephen Sestanovich (April 2007)
  
  
• The "Sequencing" Fallacy
  by Thomas Carothers (January 2007)
  
  
• Lessons from Europe
  by Sheri Berman (January 2007)
  
  
• Revolution Reconsidered
  by Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. (January 2007)
  
  
• Populism, Socialism, and Democratic Institutions
  by Hector E. Schamis (October 2006)
  
  
• Constitutional Courts: A Primer for Decision Makers
  by Donald L. Horowitz (October 2006)
  
  
• Universal Values and Muslim Democracy
  by Anwar Ibrahim (July 2006)
  
  
• Corruption: Diagnosis and Treatment
  by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (July 2006)
  
  
• Identity, Immigration, and Liberal Democracy
  by Francis Fukuyama (April 2006)
  
  
• The Assault on Democracy Assistance
  by Carl Gershman and Michael Allen (April 2006)
  
  
• Democracy's "Doubles"
  by Ivan Krastev (April 2006)
  
  
• Stronger Legislatures, Stronger Democracies
  by M. Steven Fish (January 2006)
  
  
• Lebanon Springs Forward
  by Oussama Safa (January 2006)
  
  
• The Voice of Akbar Ganji
  by Azar Nafisi (October 2005)
  
  
• The Struggle Against Sultanism
  by Akbar Ganji(October 2005)
  
  
• Preempting Democracy: The Case of Belarus
  by Vitali Silitski(October 2005)
  
  
• Transitions from Postcommunism
  by Michael McFaul(July 2005)
  
  
• Scholarship and Statesmanship
  by Fernando Henrique Cardoso (April 2005)
  
  
• The Rise of "Muslim Democracy"
  by Vali Nasr (April 2005)
  
  
• Building Democracy After Conflict: Lessons from Iraq
  by Larry Diamond (January 2005)
  
  
• Latin American Presidencies Interrupted
  by Arturo Valenzuela (October 2004)
  
  
• Russian Democracy in Eclipse: Force, Money, and Pluralism
  by Stephen Sestanovich (July 2004)
  
  
• The Anti-American Century?
  by Ivan Krastev (April 2004)
  
  
• Iraq: Setbacks, Advances, Prospects
  by Adeed Dawisha (January 2004)
  
  
• Reviving Middle Eastern Liberalism
  by Saad Eddin Ibrahim (October 2003)
  
  
• Travails of the European Raj
  by Gerald Knaus and Felix Martin (July 2003)
  
  
• The Cracked Foundations of the Right to Secede
  by Donald L. Horowitz (April 2003)
  
  
• Afghanistan's Long Road to Reconstruction
  by Larry Goodson (January 2003)
  
  
• Democratization in the Arab World? The Trap of Liberalized Autocracy
  by Daniel Brumberg (October 2002)
  
  
• Globalization and Self-Government
  by Marc F. Plattner (July 2002)
  
  
• Terror, Islam, and Democracy
  by Ladan Boroumand & Roya Boroumand (April 2002)
  
  
• The End of the Transition Paradigm
  by Thomas Carothers (January 2002)