1. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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...ut the incumbent president, Eduard Shevardnadze, created optimism that the country would move towards full democracy. More recent events suggest that the path remains elusive. Jona...

2. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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... the end of the communist dictatorship and the crackdown under President Putin, there was a period of real democracy. It was brief and it was flawed, but it could have served as a foundation upon w...

3. Political Power in Africa
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... own party. Fifteen senior members of the National Executive Committee of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) publicly opposed his bid to amend the constitution, and 59 MMD lawmakers, i...

4. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...een economic development and democratic freedom. There are three possibilities: 1) Development might lead to democracy; 2) democracy might foster development; or 3) there might be a common cause drivi...

5. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...ltiple battles over state power and the place of revolution feed straight into the future of Venezuela's democracy. Standing high in the ranks of geopolitical superstardom, Chávez is usuall...

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