Shortcuts to Liberty

One of the most important events in post-Cold War international affairs, NATO enlargement is even more of a democratic milestone for the countries of Eastern Europe than is the expansion…

Except for the Baltic states, the countries of the former Soviet Union may be less democratic today than in the last years of the USSR.

For all the concern over authoritarianism’s advance, the competence of governance may be what determines the next chapter in the struggle between democracy and dictatorship.