Is the Muslim Brotherhood a viable alternative to the current Egyptian regime?

Dissident sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Muhammad ‘Ali Ibrahim, editor of the pro-government daily Al-Gumhouriyya, debate the issue.

With dozens of pro-democracy demonstrators arrested today in the latest protests over freedom of assembly, does Vladimir Putin’s latest outburst against his critics suggest that the democratic opposition is finally getting under his skin?

The country’s civil society came …

The FT’s Gideon Rachman can’t be the only one to object to the hype and hatred accompanying this week’s publication of Tony Blair’s memoirs.

“Blair made his fateful decision on Iraq for reasons that were both honorable and …

Freedom House has appointed David J. Kramer as the organization’s new executive director.

Currently a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, Kramer served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from March 2008 to …

Will Turkey become more or less democratic following the September 12 referendum on proposed constitutional amendments?

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) insists that the changes are designed to democratize the constitution and introduce European-style rights for women, children …

The jury is still out on the prospects for Iraq’s fragile democracy, judging by the commentaries preceding President Obama’s speech on the end of U.S. combat engagement in the country.  

Obama should err on the side of caution, writes …

Islamic history provides grounds for promoting democracy in the Arab world, according to Heather Ferguson and Ty McCormick. They take exception to the type of thinking that reduces complex political phenomena to monolithic entities, insisting that Islamic democracy is …

Our friends at POMED draw our attention to  an op-ed in The Guardian by Hayder al-Khoei, a researcher at London’s Centre for Academic Shi’a Studies, which disputes the consensus that Iran has emerged as the strategic victor following …

Russia’s de facto leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, today hinted he would return to the presidency in 2012 and justified the recent violent suppression of pro-democracy protesters.

Running for the presidency “interests me like…I wanted to say like everyone, …

The wrong lesson to draw from China’s emergence as the world’s second-largest economy is that authoritarianism works, writes Chrystia Freeland. Dictatorships aren’t so good at innovation or self-correction.

Commentators like Stefan Halper and Ian Bremmer have suggested that …