The Miami Times Black Wall Street March 11 2025 article

Islam and Democracy in the Middle East

• Marc F. Plattner
• Larry Diamond
• Daniel Brumberg

Good Governance Indicators in Borderline Countries

KurzmanAppendix-21-2

Classification of the World’s Regimes in 2012

The End of the Postnational Illusion

Reconsidering the “Transition Paradigm”

The Populist Moment

Can Democracy Survive the Internet?

The 2016 U.S. Election

The Criminal Subversion of Mexican Democracy

The Kremlin Emboldened: What Is Putinism?

The Kremlin Emboldened: Putin Is Not Russia

The Legacies of 1989: Bulgaria’s Year of Civic Anger

Full-Format Endnotes – Can Democracy Survive the Internet

Appendix – Exchange-Why the Future Cannot Be Predicted

Debates on Democratization

• Marc F. Plattner
• Larry Diamond
• Philip J. Costopoulos

If democracy means anything, it means robust debates. Debates on Democratization is a collection of essays that explores the questions and controversies that surround contemporary democratization.

Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy

• Larry Diamond
• Marc F. Plattner
• Christopher Walker

In recent years, as leading authoritarian countries such as China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela have become emboldened within the global arena, challenging the liberal international political order, the advanced democracies have retreated rather than responding to this threat.

Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World

• Marc F. Plattner
• Larry Diamond

The uprisings that swept the Arab world beginning in 2010 toppled four entrenched rulers and seemed to create a political opening in a region long impervious to democratization.

Democracy in Decline?

• Marc F. Plattner
• Larry Diamond

For almost a decade, Freedom House’s annual survey has highlighted a decline in democracy in most regions of the globe. Some analysts say this shows that the world has entered a "democratic recession." Others dispute that interpretation, emphasizing democracy’s success in maintaining the huge gains it made during the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Civil-Military Relations and Democracy

• Marc F. Plattner
• Larry Diamond

"Provides a wealth of information and some fresh thinking on the role of the military and civil-military relations in many parts of the world. The intellectual quality of most contributions is high and they are concise and well-written."—Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics