Integration into European and Euro-Atlantic structures is one particularly strong democratizing force. Yet political factors are crucial to understanding the crisis and the differing ways in which the democracies and authoritarian regimes in the region responded to it. A major question in the consolidation of Eastern Europe s new democracies is whether women will participate fully in the political process. One key indicator is the representation of women in the region s parliaments. Since its establishment in 1964, the Press Union of Liberia has championed the right of journalists to report freely on events in Liberia and abroad.
Political setbacks continue to put it to the test.
A review of Francois Furet s last book, The Passing of an Illusion. Election Watch Reports on the elections in Chile, Croatia, Dominica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mozambique, Russia, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Thailand.