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April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2

Islam and Liberal Democracy: The Challenge of Secularization

• Abdou Filali-Ansary

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April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2

Russia Between Elections: The Travails of Liberalism

• M. Steven Fish

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January 1996, Volume 7, Issue 1

The New South Africa: Problems of Reconstruction

• Charles Simkins

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April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2

Transcending the Clash of Cultures: Democracy’s Forgotten Dimension

• Václav Havel

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April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2

Economic Reform and Democracy: The Politics of Safety Nets

• Carol Graham

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October 1992, Volume 3, Issue 4

The Problem of Civic Competence

• Robert A. Dahl

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July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3

The Uncertain Triumph of Democratic Capitalism

• Peter L. Berger

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January 1992, Volume 3, Issue 1

Africa: The Failure of One-Party Rule

• Peter Anyang' Nyong'o

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Fall 1991, Volume 2, Issue 4

Africa: The Rebirth of Political Freedom

• Richard Joseph

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Fall 1991, Volume 2, Issue 4

The Culture of Liberty

• Mario Vargas Llosa

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Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2

The Crisis of Perestroika

• Gail W. Lapidus

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Fall 1990, Volume 1, Issue 4

Debate—Presidents vs. Parliaments: The Virtues of Parliamentarianism

• Juan J. Linz

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Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3

Third World Communism in Crisis: The Fall of Afro-Marxism

• Jeffrey Herbst

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Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3

The Return of Russian Nationalism

• John B. Dunlop

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Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2

The Suicide of Soviet Communism

• Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr

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Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2

The Legacy of Andrei Sakharov

• Natan Sharansky

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Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1

The Perils of Presidentialism

• Juan J. Linz

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January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1

Democracy’s Future: The Primacy of Culture

• Francis Fukuyama

Democratic consolidation in the East will face the most difficulties in the cultural sphere. Democracy’s fate will depend on how the West handles its own sociocultural problems.

Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1

The Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc

• The Editors

The Editors’ introduction to “The Crumbling Soviet Bloc.” 

July 2001, Volume 12, Issue 3

Romania’s Politics of Dejection

• Grigore Pop-Eleches

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 democracy itself.