1. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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by Jonathan Wheatley The so-called "rose revolution" in Georgia, when peaceful street protests against falsified parliamentary elections sparked in November 2003 eventually forced out the inc

2. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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...merous causes and ideologies represented, I became convinced that we needed to unite, to find common cause against the repression. The one thing we all had in common was the knowledge that democracy w...

3. Political Power in Africa
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...leaders’ behavior trumps rules. The significance of the Nigerian Senate’s actions must be seen against the backdrop of this entrenched view. Contrary to depictions of African politics as &...

4. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...s of political action in support of relatively democratic regimes.5 Schooling makes democratic revolutions against dictatorships more probable and successful antidemocratic coups less probable. After ...

5. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...f revolution, socialism and, as he declared in a television interview, a "war of all the people" against the pretensions of "imperialism". In the country beyond the Palacio de Mira...