The Maidan and Beyond

Change may be caused more by the frailty of the regime than the strength of the opposition, but in such cases the outcome is often less democratic.

In 2018, a peaceful protest movement brought down Armenia’s semiauthoritarian government and ushered in a new political era, the culmination of a long struggle for national pride, self-determination, and democracy.

The elections of 2000 reflected the profound disillusionment of the Romanian electorate with the performance of the centrist government of the past four years, rather than a turn away from…