Islam’s Democratic Essence?

Basic demographic and socioeconomic factors in Iran are favorable to democratization. The mullahs may hope to stave off democratic change by emulating the Chinese model, but this strategy is doomed…

While President Ali ABdallah Salih continues to call Yemen an ’emerging democracy,’ it more closely resembles athe autocracy of the pre-unification North.

After a decade of partial liberalization begun by the late King Hussein, freedoms are now being rolled back by an anxious regime.