First,» authoritarian regimes «differ greatly among themselves–something that is perhaps
best captured by relabelling this category as non-democracies. This fact can have vital …

Democracy promotion carries a bold promise: to reconcile the competing claims of
democratic norms and national interests. As Strobe Talbott once put it, in international …

Why have moves toward democratic governance petered out over the last decade, while
authoritarian regimes have remained resilient? A distinction must be made between political …

The world today is more liberal than it ever was; more than 40 countries made transitions
toward democracy between 1974 and 2007. As a result, the number of democratic regimes …

The literature on external democratization or democracy promotion1 has gone through
different phases. During the heyday of Huntington's famous 'third wave of democratization' …

Democratization has swept the globe over the past generation, and analysts and policy
makers have been struggling to keep up. Bookshelves have been filled with case studies …

Since 2007 an increasing number of articles have diagnosed 'freedom in retreat'and
predicted a 'return to the authoritarian great powers'. Highly distinguished scholars warn …

There is a striking paradox to note about the contemporary era: from Africa to Eastern
Europe, Asia to Latin America, more and more nations and groups are championing the idea …

Readers familiar with the general discourse on contemporary democratization and on
international promotion of democracy today could be forgiven for thinking that both of these …

The best way to understand how stable, well-functioning democracies develop is to analyze
the political trajectories such countries have actually taken. The political backstory of most …