Promoting Pluralism in Eastern Europe

In March 2002, three-fifths of Ukraine’s voters chose a party or coalition opposed to the overbearing presidential apparatus of Leonid Kuchma, but the antipresidential forces found themselves frozen out in…

The fall of the Berlin Wall gave East Europeans a euphoric sense that they were about to give European democacy a new direction. But as many of their countries prepare…

Invited to join the European Union next year, the Czech Republic has a weak governing coalition that faces deep challenges at home.