Three Paradoxes of Democracy

Despite the threats posed by terrorism, 2003 saw a second consecutive year of significant momentum of freedom, and showed encouraging evidence that political rights and civil liberties can endure despite…

Why are peacebuilding operations rarely able to establish postconflict democracies, and are there other strategies that would yield more successes?

The financial crisis did not deal a fatal blow to any democracies, but it did hasten an erosion of the influence of the West. In the future, the balance of…