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Why Slovakia Is Rising Up in Protest

• John Chin

The people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against corruption and Prime Minister Robert Fico’s pro-Moscow policies. Once again, Slovaks see their future in Europe, not Russia.

What It Takes to Win the New Cold War with China

• Carl Gershman

Our struggle against the Soviet Union offers vital lessons for how to confront the aggressive totalitarian threat that Beijing now represents.

Will There Be a Ceasefire in Ukraine?

On March 11, Ukraine agreed to a thirty-day ceasefire with Russia. But Vladimir Putin is holding out, insisting that his harsh demands must first be met. Does Putin really hold all the bargaining chips, or is he weaker than we think?

April 2011, Volume 22, Issue 2

Books in Review: Opening North Korea

• John Knaus
• Lynn Lee

A review of Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea by Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard.

July 2023, Volume 34, Issue 3

The Exaggerated Death of Indian Democracy

• Rahul Verma

It is true that politics under the BJP is a break from the past. But attempts to reduce the country’s present condition to democratic backsliding misunderstands the moment and is an injustice to India’s journey as a democracy.

January 2024, Volume 35, Issue 1

The Real Dangers of Generative AI

• Danielle Allen
• E. Glen Weyl

Advanced AI faces twin perils: the collapse of democratic control over key state functions or the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of the few. Avoiding these risks will require new ways of governing.

January 2003, Volume 14, Issue 1

China’s Changing of the Guard: The Rise of the Technocrats

• Gongqin Xiao

With both reformists and leftists pushed aside, political center-stage now belongs to new pragmatists both inside and outside the Communist Party.

October 2002, Volume 13, Issue 4

Post-Coup Politics in the Gambia

• Abdoulaye Saine

The Gambia provides a lesson in how authoritarians can hold votes yet rob their people of the power that the ballot box is supposed to give them.

July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3

Debating the Transition Paradigm: The Democratic Path

• Ghia Nodia

The notion of countries being on the “path to democracy” remains valid unless and until they come up with a systemic alternative to democracy.

July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3

Debating the Transition Paradigm: A Reply to My Critics

• Thomas Carothers

The author of “The End of the Transition Paradigm” responds to each of his critics in turn.

October 2001, Volume 12, Issue 4

The OAS in Peru: Room for Improvement

• Cynthia McClintock

Although the OAS helped, sudden public revelations of corruption in Peru were more important. 

January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1

Democracy in the World—Tocqueville Reconsidered

• The Editors

The Editors’ introduction to “Democracy in the World.”

July 2004, Volume 15, Issue 3

World Religions and Democracy: Hinduism and Self-Rule

• Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Creative Hindu responses to modern challenges are a crucial part of the democratic story in India, yet Hindus must guard against those who would politicize Hindu identity.

October 2017, Volume 28, Issue 4

Liu Xiaobo (1955–2017)

A tribute in remembrance of Liu Xiaobo (1955–2017).

Why Putin’s Days Are Numbered

The system that Russia’s autocrat built wasn’t designed to survive the pressures it is now facing. March 2022  By Vladimir Milov The world’s attention is focused on the immense suffering of the brave Ukrainian people, and rightly so—no words can describe the misery and damage that Vladimir Putin has inflicted upon Ukraine with his unprovoked…

October 2002, Volume 13, Issue 4

Democratization in the Arab World?: The Decline of Pluralism in Mubarak’s Egypt

• Jason Brownlee

Since a tenuous political opening a decade ago, the Mubarak regime has systematically asphyxiated democracy in Egypt.

July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3

The Balkans: Democracy Without Choices

• Ivan Krastev

The gravest challenges facing democracy in the Balkans are problems not of ethnicity or postcommunism, but of citizen disaffection and disillusionment.

October 2001, Volume 12, Issue 4

Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: Putin’s Path

• M. Steven Fish

Although his methods are hardly democratic, Putin’s efforts to strengthen the Russian state may help democracy in the long term.

July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3

Japan’s Political Transition

• Steven K. Vogel

In The Logic of Japanese Politics, Gerald Curtis portrays the political history of Japan in the 1990s in its full complexity.   

January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1

The 1999 Freedom House Survey: A Century of Progress

• Adrian Karatnycky

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