Janusz Bugajski, a former senior research analyst at Radio Free Europe in Munich, is associate director of East European studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
In severely divided societies, ethnic cleavages tend to produce ethnic parties and ethnic voting. Power-sharing institutions can ameliorate this problem, but attempts to establish such institutions, whether based on a consociational or…
The Arab events of 2011 may have some similarities to the wave of popular upheavals against authoritarianism that swept the Soviet bloc starting in 1989, but the differences are much…
