...Ebenezer Obadare [T]he more distant the experience of military rule, the greater has been society's reconciliation to the reality of democracy as the only game in town. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Ebenezer Obadare Nigeria...

... Party democracy Khmer Rouge elections authoritarianism patronage human rights China dynastic rule 215 From local to national politics, the state, the party, and the personal interests of elites have merged into one machine. A Cambodian Fusion of Personality, Party, and the State KOSAL...

... Sara Rich Dorman Africa Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa Robert Mugabe liberation war Zimbabwe African National Union ZANU Morgan Tsvangirai military coup authoritarian rule land independence 163 In 1980, Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe Af-rican National Union (ZANU) party came...

... Arab Spring General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Morsi January 2011 uprising authoritarian rule human rights economic reforms Salafis Sinai 343 Sisi s focus on fighting terrorism has shifted the nation s political narrative from democracy and freedom...

... Robinson Colombia Álvaro Uribe Juan Manuel Santos Revolutionary Armed Forces Colombia FARC land reform elites governance indirect rule peace 43 A decade ago Colombia was in a terrible mess. The country had the highest homicide rate in the world, and was the center...

...Francis Fukuyama Stable democracy does not depend on a rigid set of preconditions, and has emerged in many surprising circumstances. Francis Fukuyama democratization Lee Kuan Yew development Kim Jung-il rule law Samuel Huntington Fareed Zakaria Robert Mugabe John Stuart Mill...

... by internal struggles, basically looks after itself. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California authoritarian democracy Federation Council FSB Gazprom Kremlin Putin rule law Russia Yeltsin President Vladimir Putin s consolidation...

... of California democracy ethnic federalism military rule Muslims Nigeria Obasanjo oil shariah Yoruba Halfway into its inaugural four-year term,Nigeria s new democracy is vexed by con-tradictions that compound the dismal legacy of more than 15 years of abusive military rule. The return...