Eastern Europe a Decade Later: Geography and Democratic Destiny

Under the pressure of compliance with the Maastricht convergence criteria governments implement painful welfare state reforms.

Is democracy in East-Central Europe suffering because of a lack of liberal zeal among elites, as Dawson and Hanley contend, or is it because liberal policies have failed to deliver…

A tribute to Václav Havel, Czech playwright and former dissident, who became not only president but the symbol of the “velvet revolutions.”