More than 200 Syrians have been massacred in the rebellious Hama region, say opposition sources, after the village of Tremseh was bombarded by helicopter gunships and tanks before being stormed by militiamen.
“If confirmed, it would be the worst single …
What does U.S. funding tell us about the priorities of the Obama administration and its policy response to the events in the Middle East? How are ongoing uprisings in some states, and transitions in others, affecting U.S. assistance to the …
Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party today highlighted its commitment to a civil, democratic state at the opening of its first congress since taking office (above). The conference coincides with moves to promote a U.S.-Tunisia free trade agreement to help support a …
Human rights and pro-democracy groups are criticizing the suspension of US sanctions on Burma as a premature concession to a regime still marred by rights abuses. But the head of the civilian-led, military-backed government insists that the scrapping of the …
“Tunisia’s fledgling democracy is threatened by a weak opposition that fails to offer a viable alternative to the well-organized Islamists in power, and discontent is taking the form
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Hungary has been described as Putinism’s first ideological outpost. But the European Union is too preoccupied with the fiscal crisis to give Viktor Orban’s creeping authoritarianism sufficient attention, writes James Kirchik.
In January 2011, the government of Hungarian Prime …
With Libya’s National Forces Alliance poised for a landslide victory in the weekend’s parliamentary elections, the conduct of the poll gave cause for both
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A clear majority of Muslims worldwide favor democracy over alternative political systems, but majorities or pluralities in six Muslim Muslim-majority countries believe the U.S. is opposed to their democratic aspirations, according to a new Pew Research survey of opinion in …
Egypt’s Islamist-led parliament today “opened a new front” in the country’s intensifying power struggle by assembling (above) in defiance of a court order that dissolved the chamber, pitting President Mohammed Morsi against the military and judiciary.
“Of course this legal wrangling …
Since the 1980s, supporting the spread of democracy around the world has become a priority for many governmental and nongovernmental actors in the West. Following the third wave of democratization, some of the new democracies in Eastern Europe, Latin America, …