A review of Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah.

Two recent demonstrations highlight both progress and lack of progress in Eastern Europe.

Five years into the war on terror, inept U.S. diplomacy risks undercutting a key democracy (and ally) that President Bush once called a model for the Muslim world.

What will be the effect of the fall of Saddam Hussein on the politics of the Middle East?

Discussion of Gerecht'snew monograph.

There may be more to fear from a mosque in Leeds than a madrassa in the Middle East.

Huntington's classification of contemporary civilizations is questionable.

But what is coming out of Germany? What do we hear? Nothing! Nothing but deafening silence! It seems as though the political class is speechless before an American president who has adopted the liberal triad of political freedom, human rights and economic development as preventive medicine against all kinds of crises.