Mongolia: A Democracy Without Prerequisites

Despite some moves toward liberalization in the past three decades, all Arab-majority countries remain authoritarian. Nonetheless, opinion surveys show that popular support for democracy in this part of the world…

The history of many of today’s established democracies shows that “out-of-sequence” democratization can lead to eventual success.

The paradox of East-Central Europe is that the rise of populism is an outcome not of the failures but of the successes of postcommunist liberalism. *This is a corrected text…