1. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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...agrave; (People of Freedom / PdL) - bringing together Berlusconi's Forza Italia and Gianfranco Fini's "post-fascist" Alleanza Nazionale (National Alliance), while sustaining an alliance with the No...

2. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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...channels were closed and opposition activists arrested, vividly illustrated the lack of progress from post-Soviet authoritarianism to European democracy. True, many of the decisions taken during th...

3. Political Power in Africa
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...oduct of two developments. First, countries such as Malawi that did not hold elections in the immediate postindependence period have begun to hold them. Second, countries such as Togo that once held s...

4. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...large educational-improvement efforts are underway, especially in rural areas and the rapidly expanding postsecondary sector. My projection is that by 2025 the average Chinese person over 25 will have...

5. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...nsensus ends. The principal ideologues of the revolution trust that this parallel machinery - the "postmodern" state in the words of Juan Carlos Monedero, a Spanish academic and prominent id...