Romania’s Road to “Normalcy”

In Romania today, as in Italy twenty years ago, the gradual politicization of anticorruption has come to shape the political scene.

Today, there are three parts of the old Soviet bloc—one is democratic, another is wholly authoritarian, and a third “intermediate” group is caught between two worlds. This last should be…

Among a new generation of international democracy promoters—often former recipients of democracy assistance themselves—Poland stands out. Its efforts, though mostly in its own neighborhood, show the importance of combining direct…