April 1996, Volume 7, Number 2

Islam and Liberal Democracy

• A Historical Overview
  Bernard Lewis
  
  
• Two Visions of Reformation
  Robin Wright
  
  
• The Challenge of Secularization
  Abdou Filali-Ansary
  
  
• The Limits of the Western Model
  Mohamed Elhachmi Hamdi
  
  
• Recognizing Pluralism
  Laith Kubba
  

Russia Between Elections

• The Vanishing Center
  Michael McFaul
  
  
• The Travails of Liberalism
  M. Steven Fish
  

Field Reports

• Defending Glasnost
  Aleksey Simonov

Books in Review

• Opening the Economic Mind by S. Gordon Redding
  Review of Francis Fukuyama's Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
  
  
• Is the Middle East Different? by Steven Heydemann
  Review of Ghassan Salamé's Democracy Without Democrats? The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World

Election Watch

• Reports on the elections in Bangladesh, Benin, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Sierra Leone, Taiwan, Turkey, West Bank and Gaza, and Zimbabwe.