The Obama administration should be more assertive steps to in?uence the outcome of Arab Spring transitions, engage more broadly than government-to-government relations with a diverse set of actors, and employ leverage and incentives to affect the behavior of key actors, …

“There’s an addictive thing about freedom,” says Jenni Williams (far left) of Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA):

When we organize our protests and we defy all the unjust laws that are in place and we are in …

King Abdullah II’s assertion that last week’s election signaled Jordan’s transition to democracy appear “hyperbolic” in face of the facts, says a leading analyst.

The National Democratic Institute, the Washington-based democracy assistance group, which observed the poll “was forceful …

The secular groups protesting on the second anniversary of Hosni Mubarak’s ouster share the blame for Egypt’s authoritarian drift under the Muslim Brotherhood, analysts assert.

The Islamist’s political dominance is a consequence of liberal and secular groups ceding the initiative …

While elections and democratic transitions are significant to a country’s advancement, some events have the potential to make not only a regional impact, but a global impact as well, notes IFES, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems:

Iran’s …

Preliminary results in Jordan‘s parliamentary elections indicate a sweeping victory for the ruling monarchy in a poll shunned by the Islamic Action Front, the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing.

“Jordan succeeded in passing the test of an electoral process that …

“Something amazing happened in Georgia’s 1 October 2012 parliamentary elections. The government lost and it gave up power, aside from the now-weakened presidency that it will hold for another year,” say two leading analysts:

A new coalition known as Georgian …

More than a year after Egyptian authorities raided the offices of the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, and Freedom House, their Egyptian and international staff are still on trial (above). What will you do to encourage …

The disparate liberal and secular forces comprising Egypt’s National Salvation Front are so fractured that they are likely to cede “the last major decision-making body in the country to Islamists when the country votes in upcoming parliamentary elections,” …

The United States “will support democracy from Asia to Africa; from the Americas to the Middle East, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom,” President Barack Obama …