Egypt
Egypt’s Constitutional Amendments Further the Decay of State Institutions
Mai El-Sadany Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 8:56 AM
A recent referendum writes authoritarianism into the country's foundational document.
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Foreign Policy Essay
Better Democracy Promotion through Immigration
Margaret E. Peters, Michael K. Miller Sun, Apr 1, 2018, 10:00 AM
Want to spread democracy and make money while doing it?
Politics & National Security
Renaissance of the Militant Democracy?
Alexander Pirang Mon, Mar 27, 2017, 8:30 AM
A look at the principle of "militant democracy" embodied in art. 21 sec. 2 of Germany's Basic Law, which provides that the Federal Constitutional Court, the Bundesverfassungsgericht, must declare the dissolution of any political party that seeks to undermine or abolish the free and democratic order of Germany or to endanger its existence.
Book Reviews
The Inner Life of a Dictatorship
Michael Gibbs Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 12:00 PM
A review of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator, by Oleg Khlevniuk (Yale University Press, reprint edition, 2016)