1. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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... overhauling the electoral system and reducing the number of politicians. On these questions he has at least been consistent; whether his coalition is strong enough to shape a new political consens...

2. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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...re or less solved, major steps have been taken to rehabilitate the transport system, and corruption (at least at the day-to-day level) has been reduced. The education system has been overhauled, wi...

3. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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...round in Russia are also in need of support. We are building a legal-defense fund to force the regime at least to follow its own laws, however draconian they may be. We do not ask a great deal from th...

4. Political Power in Africa
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...ns and the international community, they must subject themselves to elections in which opponents have at least a theoretical possibility of winning. Permitting a challenger to run, however, is not the...

5. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...y all their money from oil exports) which had attained a Gross Domestic Product per capita (GDPpc) of at least US$8,000 per year (as measured by the Purchasing-Power Parity or PPP standard for the yea...

6. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...illings, gang wars, narcotic highs and pure bad luck. Total murder statistics for the country suggest at least 16,000 are being killed each year; so far in 2007, this rate has risen by 15%. Guns, a co...