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Democracy, Human Rights and the Emerging Global Order

April 2013, Ted Piccone

Democracy and Poverty: A Lesson from Mongolia

April 2013, Nyamosor Tuya

The Organization of American States Preserves Democratic Charter–For Now!

March 28, 2013, Diana Villiers Negroponte

The Significance of Obama’s Meeting with African Leaders at the White House

March 21, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

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March 20, 2013, Ian S. Livingston and Michael O’Hanlon

Still Peddling Iraq War Myths, Ten Years Later

March 14, 2013, Paul R. Pillar

Africa's Rocky Road to Democracy

March 1, 2013, John Mukum Mbaku

State of the World: Obama's Biggest Foreign Policy Challenges

February 11, 2013, Robert Kagan

Re-Betting on Turkey

February 8, 2013, Kemal Kirişci

Ukraine must foremost improve its democratic ratings because the U.S. government won’t close its eyes to human rights abuses and rollback in democratic practices.

February 7, 2013, Steven Pifer, Kyiv Post

The Algerian Tragedy

January 25, 2013, Omar Ashour

Toward a Strategic Partnership? The EU and the GCC in a Revolutionary Middle East

January 24, 2013

Opening to Havana

January 17, 2013, Ted Piccone

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A Foreign-Policy Cheat Sheet for Obama

January 17, 2013, Martin S. Indyk

Chaos in Kabul

January 17, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Has China Lost Myanmar?

January 15, 2013, Yun Sun

Big Bets and Black Swans: Foreign Policy Challenges for President Obama’s Second Term

January 17, 2013

Resource Rents, Democracy, Corruption and Conflict: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

January 4, 2013, Rabah Arezki and Thorvaldur Gylfason

The Dangers of Popular Constitution-Making

December 3, 2012, William Partlett

Global Swing States and the Human Rights and Democracy Order

November 27, 2012, Ted Piccone

Rocky Times Ahead for Obama and Putin

November 13, 2012, Fiona Hill

Prospects of Political Reforms in Myanmar

November 9, 2012, Jeffrey A. Bader

Slip-Sliding on a Yellow Brick Road: Stabilization Efforts in Afghanistan

October/November 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Middle Classes and Foreign Policy in Latin America

November 5, 2012, Ted Piccone

"No Bourgeoisie, No Democracy": Obama's Democratization Policy in the Middle East and North Africa (Nordafrika verdankt seine Revolutionen wesentlich den USA Obamas Genie)

October 25, 2012, Jonathan Laurence