Democracy’s Dawn in Tunisia and Egypt?
With protests fading in Cairo and Tunis, it is time to ask whether Tunisia and Egypt will complete democratic transitions. A successful transition in either country (or elsewhere in the region) would be of immense importance for the Arab world, which currently includes no democracies at all.
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CAIRO – With protests fading in Tunis and seeming to have peaked in Cairo, it is time to ask whether Tunisia and Egypt will complete democratic transitions. I have been visiting both countries, where many democratic activists have been comparing their situation with the more than 20 successful and failed democratic-transition attempts throughout the world that I have observed and analyzed.