Democracy-building efforts from the early 1990s on have funneled billions of dollars into non-governmental organizations across the developing world, with the U.S. administration of George W. Bush leading the charge since 2001. But are many such 'civil society' initiatives fatally flawed? Focusing o[...]

In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the authoritarian status quo in parts of this region - and the willingness of its citizens to compromise on core democratic principles - one must factor in how a s[...]