Democracy Lab
Buddhist Monks Behaving Badly
The boys in saffron are marching again. But this time there’s nothing that's noble about it.
BY FRANCIS WADE | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
It's Time to Act in Syria
Yes, it's true: Military involvement in Syria has its risks. But the costs of non-intervention are growing by the day.
BY MARK N. KATZ | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
The Battle of the Shrines
The attack on the U.S. diplomats in Benghazi isn't the first time that Libya's ultraconservative Islamists have tried to shake things up. Can the country's nascent democracy rise to the challenge?
BY SHARRON WARD | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
The Salafi Moment
As the death of a U.S. ambassador in Libya demonstrates, the ultraconservative Salafi movement is pushing to the forefront in the politics of the Middle East. The West should be careful how it reacts.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
India, Meet Icarus
Why no one should be surprised that the emerging economic superpower is getting cut back down to size.
BY PETER PASSELL | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
The City with a Short Fuse
How a shrewd politician defused ethnic tension and improved public services in one of Indonesia’s most dysfunctional cities.
BY RUSHDA MAJEED | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
The Gang That Can't Shoot Straight
The Syrian National Council has failed to galvanize international support for the rebellion -- and it has only itself to blame.
BY MALIK AL-ABDEH | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Learning Europe's Lessons in Africa
Why five East African countries are trying to follow in the European Union's footsteps -- minus the common currency.
BY BLAIR GLENCORSE AND CHARLES LANDOW | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Burma's President Shakes Up the Chessboard
Why the president's cabinet reshuffle portends a new move toward reform.
BY LARRY JAGAN | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Bucking the Odds in North Korea
Why Kim Jong Un might just dare to be different.
BY JAY ULFELDER | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
The Great Ballot Box Caper
How do you conduct an election when contending political forces don't agree on the rules? An unlikely study in compromise from Northern Ireland in 2005.
BY MICHAEL SCHARFF | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Bullish on the Bear
It’s hard to find people who are optimistic about the future of Russian democracy. Leon Aron explains why he’s one of them.
BY PAUL STAROBIN | SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Smokeless Stoves, Girl-Friendly Schools, and the Bloc That Wasn’t
Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.
BY PETER PASSELL | AUGUST 3, 2012
Burma's Lost Boys
The government in Burma is promising to clean up its act. But the army is still recruiting child soldiers.
BY PATRICK BODENHAM | AUGUST 2, 2012
Local Bloodshed, Global Headache
Sectarian conflict in Burma is once again spurring talk of a “global war against Islam.”
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | AUGUST 1, 2012
A Country with Fourteen Psychiatrists
Libya is trying to build a new democracy. But that's a tall order for a society plagued by bad memories.
BY PORTIA WALKER | JULY 26, 2012
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Public health activists and pharmaceutical companies are finally joining forces to help developing countries get access to low-cost drugs.
BY ROGER BATE | JULY 23, 2012
"The Elite Isn't Going to Lose Control"
Middle East scholar Joshua Stacher explains why democratization in Egypt is only skin deep.
BY PAUL STAROBIN | JULY 19, 2012
Plague of Thugs
Why Mideast dictators use hoodlums to suppress dissent.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 18, 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
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
Not Quite the Holy Grail
The changing global picture of foreign direct investment.
BY PETER PASSELL | JULY 13, 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
Moscow's Marines Head for Syria
The Russians have dispatched a naval task force to Syria. As if the place wasn't enough of a mess already.
BY MARK KATZ | JULY 10, 2012
Dereliction of Duty
A new U.N. report has highlighted Rwanda's responsibility for continuing conflict in the Congo. Washington's inaction is an outrage.
BY JEFFREY TAYLER | JULY 10, 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
The Shots Heard Round the World
Why conservative economists are aghast at radical reforms by Argentina’s central bank.
BY RICK ROWDEN | JULY 3, 2012
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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