Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America’s Destiny (1992).
The more-democratic postcommunist countries have maintained stronger social safety nets than their authoritarian counterparts, but they must reassess their welfare policies to address emerging social challenges.
What made the “color revolutions” of the early 2000s possible? There were 7 factors that allowed for these democratic breakthroughs. Today, Venezuela has 6 of them, and it may soon…
