Democracy and Liberty: The Cultural Connection

After a decade of partial liberalization begun by the late King Hussein, freedoms are now being rolled back by an anxious regime.

An increase in women’s political mobilization has accompanied the global trend toward democratization, but women’s movements have taken diverse paths in different regions of the world.

An “Islamic Reformation” is not a necessary condition for the emergence of democracy in the Muslim world; what is most needed is a political reformation.