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democracy & powerControl over people's lives is shifting beyond the grasp of traditional institutions. Democracy is embraced as a vision, but can be endlessly frustrated or disappointing in practice.
A Conservative politician's campaign for civil liberties offers democrats a historic opportunity
Cross-straits flights mark a new phase in a tense relationship (archive)
A series of votes on regional autonomy tests Bolivians' capacity to live together
The formation of a new government offers modest hope of progress in the path to Europe
The Tiananmen protests of 1989 and the turbulent activism of 2008 share hidden connections
A decade's recourse to Europe's human-rights convention offers Moscow troubled lessons
The old continent was once the model for a new world. No longer. But its elites are in denial
The assaults on Italy's Roma people are driven by politics and prejudice. The remedy is in the roots
A one-man election faces Africa's leaders with a choice - to turn
against Robert Mugabe at last
Modern European history shows why representative democracy is better than direct
The Irish "no" to the Lisbon treaty is a political test for the whole European Union
A vigorous contest between two leading authors over nation, diversity, agency, racism, change
African civil-society leaders call for a free election process and an end to violence in Zimbabwe
A fleeing teacher's defiance ignites ferocious argument that reveals how China is changing
Regime violence has killed the election. A Harare voice looks to the region for hope
How the "top secret" classification of security documents corrodes the trust of their protectors
George Schöpflin is wrong - Europe's peoples need a direct vote on how they are governed
Turkey's political fissures test its stability and put its orientation towards Europe in question
The idea of a referendum as instrument of the people's will belongs to a pre-democratic era
Burma's imprisoned leader remains a beacon of her country's struggle to be free (archive)
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