Political Development

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

At first, Russia reacted to the global economic crash with denial. Then came a period of reform. What follows next will likely decide the battle between the country's liberals and hardliners.

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.

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.