Democracy

Democracy, Salafi Style

One of Saudi Arabia's most popular hardline clerics just embraced democracy. Should we worry, or applaud?

BY AARON Y. ZELIN | JULY 20, 2012

Rebuilding the Police in Kosovo

In the wake of its war with the Serbs, Kosovo faced a yawning law enforcement gap. Here's how the international community helped an embyronic country rebuild its police.

BY MORGAN GREENE, JONATHAN FRIEDMAN, RICHARD BENNET | JULY 18, 2012

Hope But No Change

Why has President Obama abandoned the one country in Africa he promised to help?

BY MVEMBA PHEZO DIZOLELE | JULY 16, 2012

Give Mexico a Chance

It wouldn’t actually be that hard to restore Mexico’s economic fortunes -- if the new president is willing to show some backbone.

BY ROBERT LOONEY | JULY 16, 2012

Talking a Great Game

So far, Washington's pivot to Asia has included a lot of work on security and trade. Democracy, not so much.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 11, 2012

India Singhs the Blues

Why the country will pay the price for its wildly overrated prime minister.

BY SADANAND DHUME | JULY 9, 2012

Latin America's Paraguayan Hangover

Some Latin American leaders have peculiar ideas about what constitutes an assault on democratic principles.

BY MAC MARGOLIS | JULY 9, 2012

The Women of Tahrir Square Fight Back

The revolution in Egypt isn’t over -- at least as long as female revolutionaries have anything to say about it.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 5, 2012

Burma's Misled Righteous

How Burma’s pro-democracy movement betrayed its own ideals and rehabilitated the military

BY FRANCIS WADE | JULY 5, 2012

Unipolar Disorder

Why are American voters so all over the place when it comes to foreign policy?

INTERVIEW BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 3, 2012

The Return of the Mexican Dinosaur

Mexico's pretty-boy president is more dangerous than he looks.

BY JOHN M. ACKERMAN | JULY 2, 2012

Reach Out to Morsy

Egypt's new president may be no moderate, but he deserves a chance to prove he's no enemy.

BY YOSSI BEILIN | JULY 2, 2012

Mexico's Bright Light

Even as the country around it sinks into a morass of drug-fueled crime, Mexico City has remained surprisingly safe.

BY LARRY KAPLOW | JUNE 29, 2012

Sympathy for the Devil

Nostalgia for an ousted tyrant is on the rise in Ivory Coast.

BY AUSTIN MERRILL | JUNE 29, 2012

Disorganized Like a Fox

Why it's a great thing that the Syrian opposition is fragmented.

BY ELIZABETH O'BAGY | JUNE 29, 2012

The Missing 50 Percent

There’s no real democracy without full representation for women.

BY SUSAN A. MARKHAM | JUNE 29, 2012

Putin's Got America Right Where He Wants It

And that's bad news for Obama.

BY MICHAEL WEISS | JUNE 28, 2012

Containing the Islamist Revolution

The next American president would be naïve to think that the uprisings sweeping the Middle East will be good for America. It's time to retrench and protect U.S. interests from the Islamist tidal wave.

BY EPHRAIM SNEH | JUNE 28, 2012

Bangkok Blues Rebuttal

The Royal Thai Embassy responds to Joshua Kurlantzick's piece on Thailand's controversial lèse-majesté law.

BY ARJAREE SRIRATANABAN AND JOSHUA KURLANTZICK | JUNE 28, 2012

Rumblings in Sudan

Anti-regime riots have swept through the authoritarian country, but is an Arab Spring really coming?

BY DEMOCRACY LAB | JUNE 27, 2012

Chile's Countercyclical Triumph

Though politicians love to talk about saving for a rainy day, not many have actually managed to pull it off. How Chile bucked the trend.

BY JEFFREY FRANKEL | JUNE 27, 2012

The Sudanese Stand Up

The best way to help the protesters in Sudan? Cover the story.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 27, 2012

Sudan Needs a Revolution

The protest movement against Omar al-Bashir is growing -- fast -- and it needs the world’s support.

BY AMIR AHMAD NASR | JUNE 26, 2012

Deadwood

Forget the best and brightest. Why did America send its C team to Afghanistan? An exclusive excerpt from the new book Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan.

BY RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN | JUNE 26, 2012

Who Cares How Many Women Are in Parliament?

There are plenty of good yardsticks for the state of women’s rights around the world. Parliamentary representation isn’t one of them.

BY JOSHUA FOUST, MELINDA HARING | JUNE 25, 2012

Build Burma from the Ground Up

Relying only on the state to implement democratic reforms in Burma is a fool’s errand. But there’s a better way.

BY ELLIOTT PRASSE-FREEMAN | JUNE 22, 2012

Debating the Failed States Index

Was this year's ranking of the world's most fragile states on target? Five countries respond.

JUNE 22, 2012

The Martyrdom of Al Qusayr

Images from photojournalist Robert King’s recent visit to a Syrian community under siege.

JUNE 21, 2012

"The Wounded Will Be Killed"

An American photojournalist describes what he saw during the month he spent in a Syrian village under siege.

BY ROBERT KING | JUNE 21, 2012

Her Work Isn’t Done

This week the world is celebrating Aung San Suu Kyi’s achievements as a pro-democracy activist. Now the question is: Can she finish the job?

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 20, 2012