Z. Barany

Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? H...

Barany concludes his study with observations on the implications of this development, but his main contribution is making the analytical link between the political and military factors in Russia.

What went wrong in Russia's decade-old post-communist transition? A group of leading young scholars answer this question by offering assessments of five crucial political arenas during the Yeltsin era...