Czech Elections: How a Billionaire Populist Upstaged Established Parties
The Czech election results represent a decisive breach in the Republic’s previously stable pattern of party politics. The new political landscape is both fluid and highly fragmented.
Review – Democracy in Retreat
Kulantzich carries the debate about foreign policy, intervention and self-determination to a new level by pressing readers think about how democracy is successfully advanced.
Syria’s Drowning Dream
The Arab World is faced with tremendous odds in its journey towards democracy, internally and externally, and the price has been heavy. These challenges are undermining the future stability of the region.
Women’s Rights and the Arab Spring: Democracy at Stake
It will be democracy, rather than revolutions, that will improve women’s rights in the Arab countries. However, the process of democratization is long and full of hurdles.
Egypt’s Crisis and Its Polarised Narratives
How a crisis is simplified and framed can say a lot about the strategic choices being made by certain actors, as can be seen from the polarised narratives arising out of Egypt’s crisis.
Democracy in Cuba
As the global financial crisis deepens, Cuba’s socialist experiment and its attempts to give democracy a participative social orientation may gain a global relevance in this age of uncertainty.
The European Union’s Next Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Prize Committee appears to have missed an opportunity to identify what is most distinctive about the EU and its contribution to “fraternity among nations” – its dispute settlement system.
The EU’s Democracy-Stability Dilemma Persists in Egypt
Negative assessments of Egypt’s democratic transition contrasted with positive assessments of its foreign policies suggests that the democracy-stability dilemma persists in EU-Egyptian relations.
I Say Democracy Promotion, You Say Democracy-Development, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off?
The failures to develop stable democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq have shaped the study of U.S. democracy promotion.
Review – Reforming Democracies
Douglas Chalmers’ analysis seeks to look in new places to propose a reform agenda that is focused on an entirely different set of processes than scholars have traditionally covered.
