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Michael McFaul’s Greatest Hits

Ten of the former ambassador’s best JoD essays spanning the last thirty years.

January 2001, Volume 12, Issue 1

The 2000 Freedom House Survey: Gains Offset Losses

• Arch Puddington
• Aili Piano

Promising advances in the status of freedom in the world during the past year have been matched by significant disappointments.

The Quiet Demise of Jordan’s Political Space

• Elizabeth Parker-Magyar

In the shadow of Gaza’s destruction, the Jordanian regime has quietly repressed one of the main sources of the country’s political activism.

July 2008, Volume 19, Issue 3

Asia’s Progress

• Satu P. Limaye

A review of Pacific Asia in Quest of Democracy by Roland Rich.

April 2007, Volume 18, Issue 2

Assisting Political Parties

• Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

A review of Confronting the Weakest Link: Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies by Thomas Carothers.

January 2007, Volume 18, Issue 1

Books in Review: Is China Stuck?

• Bruce Gilley

A review of China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei.

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.

April 2002, Volume 13, Issue 2

Cracks in the Middle Kingdom

• Arthur Waldron

A review of Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing. By Ian Buruma.

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.   

July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3

Grappling with Legitimacy

• Andrew MacIntyre

A review of Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority, edited by Muthiah Alagappa.

January 1992, Volume 3, Issue 1

The Surging Tide of Democracy

• Dankwart A. Rustow

A review of The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, by Samuel P. Huntington

Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3

Reconstituting South Africa

• Frederik van Zyl Slabbert

A review of A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society, by Donald L. Horowitz.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The Maidan and Beyond

• The Editors

Read the full essay here. The Editors’ introduction to “The Maidan and Beyond.”

July 2008, Volume 19, Issue 3

Islamist Parties and Democracy

• The Editors

The Editors’ introduction to “Islamist Parties and Democracy.” 

July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3

Latin America’s Imperiled Progress: The Politics of Second-Generation Reform

• Manuel Pastor
• Carol Wise

Read the full essay here.  

April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2

Salvaging El Salvador

• Enrique A. Baloyra

Read the full essay here.

Winter 1991, Volume 2, Issue 1

Colombia’s Bloody War of Words

• Maria Jimena Duzan

Read the full essay here.

Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3

Nicaragua’s Choice: Reclaiming the Revolution

• Pablo Antonio Cuadra

Read the full essay here.

Believe Nothing Putin or Prigozhin Tell You

In the days ahead, the West must remain calm—and redouble its support for Ukraine.

How Autocrats Use Sharp Power to Wage War on Democracy

Most of the world’s democracies remain extremely vulnerable to sharp-power threats. The following Journal of Democracy essays explore how authoritarians weaponize universities, technologies, media, entertainment, and culture to attempt to crack democracy’s foundations.