democracy
03/07/2017 - 12:04
The early Communist movement never rejected this broad premise. It was born out of a sense of betrayal by the more moderate left-wing... →
22/04/2017 - 12:52
To Americans, democracy is a given. But to the rest of the world, it’s a fairly recent invention — a creature of the past two centuries.... →
30/03/2017 - 15:26
President Vladimir Putin is the embodiment of nostalgia not so much for Soviet times as for that period’s sacralization of the state, which... →
24/07/2016 - 16:59
If the coup hadn’t happened, Erdogan would have had to stage it himself. Whereas before the coup he had been guiding the country toward... →
13/04/2016 - 14:31
Today dictators are cooperating with and learning from one another, sharing know-how and technology across borders. This is visible, for... →
19/02/2016 - 16:51
Russia once again is approaching a breaking point at which reform may become inevitable. Ironically, any effective program of political... →
06/02/2016 - 16:05
The dichotomy between the new and the familiar in contemporary Russia can be broken down into a handful of contradictions that neither... →
17/01/2016 - 17:52
On January 16, 2011, on Avenue Habib Bourghiba in Tunis, during one of the clashes between protesters and police who weren’t sure what they... →
26/10/2015 - 12:10
So far, Tunisia has been a rare exception in the region. In Egypt, exclusionist policies by both Islamist forces and so-called liberal... →
11/09/2015 - 12:35
Both perspectives seem plausible — but our research shows that there is little merit to either of them. In our review of the 79 dictators... →
11/07/2015 - 19:54
All of this may seem like an outburst of anti-Americanism, but the real target is dissent at home. Domestic activists who receive funding... →
02/06/2015 - 19:14
Typically, dictatorships – as seen by researchers – have a few other hallmarks, too. Unlike monarchs, who are drawn from a very small pool... →