6 The Power of Elections
by Sunil Khilnani
10 South Asia Opens Up
by Walter Andersen
14 Elections and Foreign Policy in the Transatlantic Region
by Esther Brimmer
17 Democracy Promotion: Rebuilding the Consensus
by Thomas Carothers
20 Turkey's Elections: Democratic Islamists?
by Svante Cornell and Kemal Kaya
24 Planting the Democracy Flag in the Middle East
by Marius Deeb
28 Democracy or Development: Which Comes First?
by Francis Fukuyama
31 Elections and Geopolitics
by Jakub Grygiel
34 In the U.S., It's Iraq
by Robert J. Guttman
38 Putinism Without Putin?
by Andrew C. Kuchins
42 Dangerous Triangle: U.S., China and Taiwan
by David M. Lampton
46 Struggling for Democracy in Nigeria
by Peter Lewis
50 Brown and the New British Diplomacy
by Matthias Matthijs
53 Who Will Help the Iranian People?
by Azar Nafisi
56 Back on Track: Polish Voters Give EU a Thumb's Up
by Mitchell A. Orenstein
59 Italian Voters Take a Pass on Foreign Policy
by Gianfranco Pasquino
62 Latin America and the United States in a Year of Elections
by Riordan Roett
65 Korea: Caught in the Crosscurrents
by Jae-Jung Suh
68 Elections Are No Cure-All
by Ruth Wedgwood
70 Elections vs. 'Selections' in Southeast Asia
by Bridget Welsh
74 Conflict Resolution and Elections
I. William Zartman
78 Update From the Bologna Center
by Karen Riedel
83 Hopkins-Nanjing Center: Celebrating 2 Decades of Success
by Kathryn Mohrman
86 Give SAIS Your Vote of Confidence
Departments:
2 A Message From the Dean
88 Thank-You’s
106 SAIS Alumni Chapters
108 What We’ve Heard
114 The Bookcase
An Eye on Elections: Alumni Profiles