New volume examines how authoritarian regimes have become smarter
The late Samuel Huntington, a Harvard political scientist, famously talked about democratization as a series of wave motions forward and backward. Scholars label the burst of democratization in Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s as the Third Wave. The political reform that got underway in Myanmar in 2010; the popular Arab Spring uprisings that first erupted in Tunisia in December of 2010 and then spread across the region; and regime change in Ukraine in 2014 have collectively been seen by some as a possible Fourth Wave. At …read more
Source: Atlantic Council