SUMMER 2008 • VOLUME 15: NUMBER 3
FOCUS ON GOVERNANCE
Saliba Sarsar and David B. Strohmetz, The Economics of Democracy in Muslim Countries
What do GDP and military expenditures say about democracy?
Caroline Sevier, The Costs of Relying on Aging Dictators
Troubled succession ahead for anti-democratic strongmen
Steven Stotsky, Does Foreign Aid Fuel Palestinian Violence?
The disturbing-and ignored-correlation between money and violence
Milena Uhlmann, European Converts to Terrorism
Security officials worry about a new breed of radical Islamists
Denis MacEoin, Tactical Hudna and Islamist Intolerance
Helping Westerners understand what Muslims mean by truce
Dmitry Shlapentokh, The Rise of the Chechen Emirate?
The struggle in Chechnya between Islamists and nationalists
Eyal Zisser, An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria
Did Israel's air strike change the balance of power?
DOCUMENT
Ending Londonistan
Cultural appeasement doesn't work. Introduced by Melanie Phillips
COMMENTARY
E. Haldun Solmazturk, Turkish Secularism Is Democratic
A Turkish general defends separation of mosque and state
CORRESPONDENCE
Bashar al-Assad … Abrogation in Islam … The Middle East's Tribal DNA
REVIEWS
Brief Reviews
Iranian bazaar ... The PKK ... Jordan river basin ... Palestinian police ... Yemen
DISSIDENT WATCH
Scott Carpenter, Mohsen Marzouk
A Tunisian activist seeks international support for democratization
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