Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite... →
Stephen Kinzer
By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in... →
Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated... →
Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to... →
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power... →
Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an... →
The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian... →