October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
Subject: Authoritarianism
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
The Puzzle of East Asian Exceptionalism
July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
Latin America’s Critical Elections: Five Scenarios for Mexico
July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
Defending Human Rights in Indonesia
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
Latin America’s Emerging Local Politics
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
Pakistan: Hope Amidst Turmoil
July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
Kenya: Lessons From a Flawed Election
July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
Politics After Communism: Ukraine—A View from Within
April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2
China’s Path from Communism
January 1993, Volume 4, Issue 1
Central Asia on Its Own
October 1992, Volume 3, Issue 4
Indonesia’s Threefold Crisis
October 1992, Volume 3, Issue 4
The Islamist Challenge: The Failure of Reform in Tunisia
October 1992, Volume 3, Issue 4
Africa’s Troubled Transitions
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
Marx, Schumpeter, and the East Asian Experience
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
Socialism, Capitalism, and Modernity
April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2
Zambia Starts Over
January 1992, Volume 3, Issue 1
Africa: The Failure of One-Party Rule
Fall 1991, Volume 2, Issue 4
Confronting Dictatorship in Kenya
Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3
The USSR’s Protracted Crisis
Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2
The Nations of the USSR
A review of Hidden Nations: The People Challenge the Soviet Union, by Nadia Diuk and Adrian Karatnycky.
Fall 1990, Volume 1, Issue 4
Paraguay After Stroessner: Democratizing the One-Party State
Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3
Third World Communism in Crisis: Castro’s Last Stand
Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3
Technology and Freedom
A review of Power, Press, and the Technology of Freedom: The Coming Age of ISDN, by Leonard R. Sussman.
Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
The Agony of the Sudan
Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
The Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc: Overcoming Totalitarianism
Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
Achebe’s Africa
A review of Anthills of the Savannah, by Chinua Achebe.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
Why Putin Must Be Defeated
The more determined democracies are to avoid war, the greater the risk that autocracies will wage it.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
Putin’s Inevitable Invasion
Why did Russia invade Ukraine? And why are Russian forces fighting so poorly? The internal logic of its personalist dictatorship is to blame.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
Do Russians Support Putin?
More than window dressing, public-opinion surveys and elections provide a crucial insight into the Russian people’s relationship with their regime.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
How Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ruined Russia
The first two months of the war alone turned the Russian clock back decades, undoing thirty years of post-Soviet economic gains and reducing the country to an international pariah state.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
How Resilient Is the CCP?
Xi Jinping undercut China’s political norms to cement his own power and brand of rule. But in so doing the “Chairman of Everything” has introduced new vulnerabilities for the regime.