The essays collected here evolved from a two-day conference on Ethiopia held at the Johns Hopkins...

Yemen is facing a unique confluence of crises. A civil war in the North, a secessionist movement ...

The United States faces no greater challenge today than successfully fulfilling its new ambition ...

The unbanning of the African National Congress and the release of Nelson Mandela in February of 1...

During the 1990s, international democracy promotion efforts led to the establishment of numerous ...

Reform is a politically charged issue in the Middle East. Governments admit change is necessary, ...

Two highly regarded commentators scrutinise the separate trajectories of the Levant, the Gulf, Eg...

This book's starting assumption is that democracy is always desirable, but may not always be poss...

Pluralism in the Arab world has not yet matured into functional democratic politics. While ruling...