Freedom’s Secret Recipe
In his powerful and comprehensive survey of global political history, Francis Fukuyama explains how liberal democracies have managed to achieve what he calls the “miracle of modern politics”: balancing state power, the rule of law, and accountability to citizens. But past results, he warns, are no guarantee of future success.
Francis Fukuyama will be speaking with Gideon Rose at Foreign Affairs LIVE this Thursday in New York. Tickets are still available.
The Clash of Ideas eBook Now Available
The Clash of Ideas tells the story of the great ideological debates of the past century and the emergence of the modern order.
Combining several new essays with highlights from 90 years of Foreign Affairs, the collection features authors such as Isaiah Berlin, Benedetto Croce, Francis Fukuyama, Charles P. Kindleberger, John Ikenberry, Harold J. Laski, Leon Trotsky, and many more. An introduction by Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose sets the stage and puts both old and new material in context.
The book is available for purchase in digital format for the Kindle, NOOK, and iPad. An enhanced PDF is for sale for $8.95 at www.ForeignAffairs.com/ClashOfIdeas, and print copies will soon be available for purchase on Amazon.com.
Steven Radelet’s accessible new book argues that much of the credit for Africa’s recent economic boom goes to its increasingly open political systems. But Radelet fails to answer the deeper question: why some countries have managed to develop successful democracies while others have tried but failed. Full review available here.
Democracy and the Reverse Coup
Turkey is not yet a liberal democracy but it is moving in the right direction. Those who lament the military chief of staff’s recent resignation, arguing that the armed forces were an essential check on civilian politics, should understand that Turkey is now becoming a normal democracy, where elected officials will matter more than the military. Read more here.
What Independent Observation Can (and Can’t) Do
When Tunisia and Egypt hold elections this fall, international election monitors will face pressure to validate the results as a proof that the Arab Spring is yielding democratic dividends. They must resist that pressure — both to maintain their independence and convince Egyptians and Tunisians of it. Susan D. Hyde of Yale University and Judith G. Kelley of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University explain.
How the Election will Change Turkish Politics
The ruling AKP won Turkey’s recent legislative elections, but lost the supermajority it has enjoyed since 2002. This will force the party will to seek consensus on domestic policy, but may allow it to harden its eastward-leaning foreign policy, writes Soner Cagaptay, the Director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University.
Also, take a look at our syllabus of must-reads on Turkish foreign policy here.
The Limits of the Country’s Regional Resurgence
The Turkish elections are over and the AKP now has to look forward. Piot Zalewsky, the Turkey correspondent for the Polish news magazine Polityka and a contributor to Foreign Policy, The Atlantic.com, and The National, explains how the Arab Spring may change the future of Turkey’s foreign policy.
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