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Snapshot,
Soner Cagaptay

Under the leadership of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey's foreign policy is becoming more Islamist. Can the country's history of cooperation with the West survive?

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Review Essay, Sep/Oct 2009
Charles Tripp

The notion of political Islam may be a more complicated bargain than many realize, and Muslims who seek to shape the world according to their religious values often confront an obdurate reality.

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Postscript,
Akbar Ganji

The clerical regime's tampering with the election was nothing less than an attempt to completely take over all aspects of the Iranian state.

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Snapshot,
Suzanne Maloney

No matter who emerges victorious in Iran's current struggle for political power, the future of the Islamic Republic will look nothing like the country the world has known for the last 30 years.

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Letter From,
Mandy Rossouw

The African National Congress, South Africa's ruling party since the end of the apartheid era, has split apart. Will the political rift make space for a true opposition party in this April's elections?

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Essay, Mar/Apr 2009
Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel

Democratic institutions tend to emerge only when certain social and cultural conditions exist. But economic development and modernization push those conditions in the right direction and make democracy increasingly likely.

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Review Essay, Mar/Apr 2009
Steven A. Cook

Bruce Rutherford’s Egypt After Mubarak is an ambitious effort to explain how the Muslim Brotherhood, the judiciary, and the business sector can work in parallel, if not exactly together, to influence Egypt’s political future.

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Essay, Jan/Feb 2009
Anne-Marie Slaughter

The United States’ unique ability to capitalize on connectivity will make the twenty-first century an American century.

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Essay, Jul/Aug 2008
Elizabeth C. Economy and Adam Segal

Failure to plan for predictable problems has turned China's coming-out party into an embarrassment.

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Essay, Jan/Feb 2008
Klaus Schwab

Global corporate citizenship means that companies must not only be engaged with stakeholders but be stakeholders themselves alongside governments and civil society. Since companies depend on global development, which in turn relies on stability and increased prosperity, it is in their direct interest to help improve the state of the world.

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