1. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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...hat Berlusconi was "unfit to govern". Silvio Berlusconi's record But the question is not merely who is fit to govern, but whether Italy can be governed. The electio...

2. Political Power in Africa
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... two-thirds parliamentary vote in favor of amending the constitution triggered a national referendum on the question, which was carried by a two-to-one margin. These cases remind us that many African ...

3. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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Little more than a decade ago, my answer to the question posed by this essay’s title was the year 2015.1 My assessment, published in the Fall 1996 issue of The National Interest, began by observ

4. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...ted Chávez in the brief 2002 putsch - then a more slow-burning source of tension can be found in the questionable allure of "21st century socialism". A visit to any of Caracas' hi...