The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict: The Fate of Minorities in Eastern Europe

Change may be caused more by the frailty of the regime than the strength of the opposition, but in such cases the outcome is often less democratic.

The 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe were the triumph of civic dignity over Leninism. The first decade of postcommunism saw the project of an open society strongly challenged…

A number of countries in East-Central Europe are facing a grave crisis of constitutional democracy. As their governments seek to undermine the institutional limits on their power, constitutional courts have…