Eastern Europe’s Constitutional Courts

Strategies based on transition pacts that reduce rulers' risks and cushion their retreat from total power may be the most promising route to democracy in the Arab world.

After a decade and a half, how do citizens of postcommunist Europe now feel toward their new governing regimes?

In contrast to authoritarian power structures, which rest on a form of bureaucratic corporatism that makes the leader its hostage, the regime in Moscow rests on personalized power, something that…