If Europe continues to pull itself back from the brink of financial calamity and political instability, historians will write books not about how the radical right destroyed the European project but how elected officials checked populist influences and found a way to muddle through.

Argentine democracy appears to be weathering its most serious challenge since 1983 with relative success. … The political and economic crisis … has not led to the collapse of democratic institutions or prompted calls for authoritarianism.

Significant differences exist between the Islamic revivalist movements looking to cultural and spiritual renewal that have swept Southeast Asia in recent years and transnational terrorist networks. Straddling these two extremes are political parties and groups seeking greater autonomy or secession of predominantly Islamic regions.