Has Venezuela’s notoriously fractured opposition not only found a candidate around whom it can unite, but one who can beat the incumbent?
“Incumbents in Latin America rarely lose reelection bids,” notes Michael Penfold, an Associate Professor at the Institute …
Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson’s Centennial Meeting
‘Whither the Arab Spring?’
Speakers (above, left to right): Elliott Abrams, Former Assistant Secretary of State for UN affairs, Human Rights, and Latin America; Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy; Ambassador …
As tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to mark the first anniversary of Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, the political fissures between former allies was all to evident as Islamists and liberals ‘faced off’ in fierce disputes over …
Is Ecuadorean democracy the latest victim of the resource curse?
Record oil revenues are fuelling Ecuador’s ‘authoritarian creep’ and bolstering the populist appeal of President Rafael Correa.
“A doubling in public spending under Correa adheres to a formula that …
As thousands assembled in Tahrir Square today for the first anniversary of the revolt that ousted Hosni Mubarak, it appeared that Mubarakism was alive and well – in Washington as well as Cairo.
The familiar refrain that Egypt’s authoritarian forces …
Libya’s transitional authorities are struggling to overcome the legacy of autocratic rule, a senior United Nations official said today, as fresh violence broke out when Gaddafi loyalists seized control of a provincial town.
The country’s “exciting if unsteady transition” continues …
The Obama administration is planning to accelerate the pace of US aid to Egypt, a senior State Department official said today.
Pro-democracy activists and analysts recently called for US aid to Egypt to be cut or deferred, following government …
The engagement of emerging democracies is one of the signature themes of the Obama administration’s democracy policy. Yet states like Turkey, Brazil, South Africa and India have diverged from Western democracies on key human rights and democracy issues. …
Does the Kremlin’s vitriolic reaction to the new US envoy’s meeting with opposition activists signal an imminent crackdown? Or do reports that web cameras are being installed in polling stations in a bid to prevent electoral fraud suggest that the …
Have advocates of Arab democracy been “mesmerized by some ideological mirage”? Are Western commentators underplaying the risk to women’s rights and religious minorities arising from the region’s Islamist resurgence?
“If tourists can wear bikinis but local women must …