Eastern Europe a Decade Later: Reassessing the Revolutions of 1989

Chile's new Socialist president Michelle Bachelet will seek to maintain the country's socioeconomic progress, but her attempt to cure growing alienation from the traditional parties could create a new set…

Saudi Arabia looked for a time in early 2011 as if it too would become swept up in the Arab uprising. Yet it never quite happened—why?

Since most of the world’s soverign states are now democracies, there is a growing scholarly focus on “good” or “better” democracy, and on how improvements can not only be measured,…