This week, the last democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring came to a sputtering end. Voters in Tunisia passed a constitutional referendum giving President Kais Saied near-total power, weakening an ...

Once regarded as the sole democracy to have emerged from the mass protests of the Arab Spring in 2011, Tunisia is today voting on a newly minted constitution that analysts fear could be the final nail ...

ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: In 2011, in the first and only successful Arab Spring revolution, Tunisians overthrew their dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. That's when I first met journalist Amna (ph).

The Arab Spring has ended in total ruin. I don’t just mean that it has failed to deliver the freedoms for which its authors hoped in 2011. I mean, it has, from a very low base, made life even worse in ...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously said in 1947 that "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." While ...

What is part of a vibrant democracy is that you have different media doing different things,” Garcia-Navarro said.

Upheaval in Yemen and the possibility that al Qaeda might take over, turning that country into a stronger terrorist base than it already is, should give pause to American and European policy in the ...

After 70,000 deaths in Gaza, Egyptians are acutely aware of American weapons systems used to conduct and prolong the war. | ...

Democracy and Security, Vol. 9, No. 4 (September-December 2013), pp. 334-359 (26 pages) Despite implementing coup-proofing measures designed to maintain military loyalty, Arab regimes proved ...

No state with serious oil wealth has ever transformed into a democracy. Oil lets dictators buy off citizens, keep their finances secret, and spend wildly on arms. To prevent the "resource curse" from ...

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