Eastern Europe’s “Terrible Twos”

Invited to join the European Union next year, the Czech Republic has a weak governing coalition that faces deep challenges at home.

The “color revolutions” in the postcommunist countries cannot be attributed to diffusion alone. Structural factors offer a better explanation of why such revolutions have succeeded in some countries and not…

In Hungary’s 2010 general elections, Fidesz won 68 percent of the seats in parliament—allowing it to impose a wholly new constitutional order.