List of Democracy articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Hosni Mubarak's regime may be wobbling, but persistent divides within the Egyptian opposition have prevented the movement from capitalizing on their opportunity.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Locked Up in Rwanda
An American lawyer is arrested in Kigali for genocide denial. Is it a sign of President Paul Kagame's creeping authoritarianism?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Turkey Tamed Its Army
Fifty years after the country's most infamous military coup, Turkey finally appears to be strenghening its democratic institutions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tarnishing the Iron Lady of Africa
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf may be the best president Liberia has ever had. But now even she faces criticism for failing to crack down on corruption.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sri Lanka Rejects War Crimes Accusations
Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris tells FP that an International Crisis Group report accusing his government of intentionally killing civilians is "nebulous" and shrouded in a "veil of secrecy."
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Guinea’s Economic Junta
A year and a half after a military coup, Guinea will hold its presidential election in June. The man in charge may change, but the army's domination of lucrative mineral contracts won't.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ethiopia’s Democratic Sham
A government clampdown has rendered the outcome of Sunday's parliamentary elections a foregone conclusion. Washington doesn't seem to mind that its ally, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, is assured a win.
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STR/AFP/Getty Images Turkey’s Zero-Problems Foreign Policy
The Turkish government this week brokered an 11th-hour nuclear fuel swap deal with Iran. Turkey's foreign minister explains the principles that made it possible.