Comments on Nationalism and Democracy

The country’s hold on electoral democracy is firm, but its claim still to be a liberal democracy is increasingly dubious.

Of late, Indian democracy has been confronted with a new political economy. Strong economic growth over the last three decades has generated the world’s fourth-largest collection of dollar billionaires and…

The lack of democracy in the Arab world is a problem that goes far beyond the absence of competitive elections. This lack must be traced not to religion or culture,…