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October Highlights
"The risk that the EU will disintegrate is more than a scare story...It is a clear and present danger," writes Ivan Krastev in "A Fraying Union," one of seven essays on the crisis in Europe.
The cluster “The Opening in Burma” analyzes recent political developments in the longtime military dictatorship. Contributors include Min Zin and Brian Joseph, Larry Diamond, and Burmese activists Min Ko Naing and Hkun Htun Oo.
JoD coeditor Marc Plattner ponders the implications for democracy of a transformed media landscape, while other essays examine Arab monarchies' resilience and explore views of democracy in the Arab world.
New Books
Liberation Technology
The revolutions in the Middle East have shown how "liberation technology" can help mobilize citizen protest and oust autocracies, while in China and Iran, authoritarian regimes have used technology to stifle protest and target dissenters. This dynamic has sparked a technological race between "netizens" demanding freedom and authoritarians determined to stay in power.
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy
This book addresses such broad issues as whether democracy promotes inequality, the socioeconomic factors that drive democratic failure, and the basic choices that societies must make as they decide how to deal with inequality.