Democracy Myths and Realities

I often find Foreign Policy's "Think Again" feature to be kind of heavy of straw men and condescension, but I've been known to learn a thing or to from it. Thus, the current edition from Marina Ottaway and Thomas Carothers may teach you a thing or two about democratic reform in the Arab world. Real junkies should be reading Carnegie's regularly published Arab reform bulletin, in which case you'll know all this already.

Hat tip: Patrick Belton.