A thought-provoking study of democratization proposing that the spate of retreating democracies, one after another over the past two decades, is not just a series of exceptions.

Joshua Kurlantzick says Europe is turning to emerging economies to help solve its debt crisis, but it's too bad they can't deliver.

Joshua Kurlantzick explores Deng Xiaoping's legacy in his review of Ezra Vogel's Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China and Henry Kissinger's On China.

Joshua Kurlantzick details the ways in which Chinese influence is putting pressure on democracy in Asia.

Joshua Kurlantzick and Hunter Marston say that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi might not want to assume a revolutionary role when dealing with the Burmese government.

Joshua Kurlantzick says Libya is hardly the only country that has reason to rejoice at the fall of Muammar al-Qaddafi.

Joshua Kurlantzick says Thailand's post-election democracy may need U.S. support.

Joshua Kurlantzick says the election victory by the party of Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, puts Thailand's already wobbly democracy at greater risk.

Joshua Kurlantzick says that as counterterrorism officials plot life for al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden, they would do well to look toward the Indonesian experience.

Joshua Kurlantzick writes that the Obama administration has learned that Washington can criticize the Beijing regime on human rights while continuing to work with it on other important global issues.

Joshua Kurlantzick says China's involvement in the Arab world could provide a vital balance to existing western interests in the region.

Joshua Kurlantzick says despite Beijing's quick response to potential protests similar to those sweeping over the Middle East, in reality China's leadership has little to fear.

Joshua Kurlantzick says, "The junta might be building nukes--but is the United States doing anything about it?"

Joshua Kurlantzick argues, "China can't fix North Korea, so don't ask it to try."

Joshua Kurlantzick and Shelby Leighton ask, "Why bother with a coup when there are better ways to take control?"

Joshua Kurlantzick says that in light of recent political uprisings in world politics, "monarchy seems relevant again."

Joshua Kurlantzick discusses the roots of the conflict in Thailand.

Joshua Kurlantizk says that authoritarian regimes have undermined the potential power of the World Wide Web to foster democracy.

Joshua Kurlantzick says, "A global decline in political freedom is partly the fault of the middle class."

Joshua Kurlantzick says the West now ignores human rights.

Joshua Kurlantzik argues, "the age of global human-rights advocacy has collapsed."