The Dynamics of Democratic Exclusion

For this huge, sprawling nation in the throes of an ambiguous transition, 2004 will be a year replete with unprecedented electoral tests. In the end, leadership and results will probably…

Since its founding out of the partition of British India in 1947, Pakistan has labored in the shadow of critical choices made at that time.

Despite some moves toward liberalization in the past three decades, all Arab-majority countries remain authoritarian. Nonetheless, opinion surveys show that popular support for democracy in this part of the world…