Journal of International Affairs

HEADNOTE Myanmar has been under military rule in various guises for nearly fifty years. The most durable and...

POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND THE AUTHORITARIAN STATE IN PERU: SILENCING CIVIL SOCIETY Jo-Marie Burt (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010),...

THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER: FROM PREHUMAN TIMES TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Francis Fukuyama (New York: Farrar, Straus...

HEADNOTE Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic has modernized and bureaucratized the clerical establishment, redefined...

An Interview with Mohamed ElBaradei After an eighteen-day revolution that ended Hosni Mubarak's thirty-year reign, Egypt must direct...

THE NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA Rajah Rasiah and Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, eds. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing,...

THE RISE OF ELECTIVE DICTATORSHIP AND THE EROSION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL: PEACE, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA Kasahun...

ISLAM AND TECHNOLOGY: EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION Aarti Ramachandran The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and...

ALASTAIR SMITH: DICTATORS' RACE TO THE BOTTOM The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics...

HEADNOTE The Arab Spring, a wave of revolutions in nondemocratic countries in North Africa and the Middle East,...

HEADNOTE On the heels of democratic uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), recent "mass incidents"...

HEADNOTE Although North Korea's northern border remains easy to cross, and North Koreans are now well aware of...

An Interview with Ivan Krastev Ivan Krastev is a Bulgarian political scientist and a leading scholar on authoritarianism....

THE HIDDEN PEOPLE OF NORTH KOREA: EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE HERMIT KINGDOM Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh (New...

HEADNOTE The rising prominence of sovereign wealth funds-investment funds that are owned or controlled by national governments-has stirred...

DRAGON IN THE TROPICS: HUGO CHÁVEZ AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REVOLUTION IN VENEZUELA Javier Corrales and Michael...

HEADNOTE Belarus, a post-Soviet country ruled by Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, is a case of a contemporary regime...

HEADNOTE Today more than 500 million Chinese Internet users roam social networking websites. Of them, as many as...

MOCK DEMOCRACIES: AUTHORITARIAN COVER-UPS Mario Bours Laborin Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War Steven Levitsky and...

HEADNOTE The Cuban Revolution recently experienced a major transition of leadership as power shifted hands from Fidel Castro...