Table of Contents

Burma: Suu Kyi's Missteps
Zoltan Barany

The Rise of Kleptocracy
I. A Challenge to Democracy
Christopher Walker and Melissa Aten

II. The Dark Side of Globalization
Oliver Bullough

III. Laundering Cash, Whitewashing Reputations
Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, and J.C. Sharman

IV. Autocrats versus Activists in Africa
Brett L. Carter

V. Malaysia's Missing Billions
Cynthia Gabriel

VI. Power and Plunder in Putin's Russia
Miriam Lanskoy and Dylan Myles-Primakoff

VII. Does China Fit the Model?
Andrew Wedeman

Reevaluating Runoffs in Latin America
Cynthia McClintock

Fighting Terrorism: The Democracy Advantage
Amichai Magen

Dashed Hopes and Extremism in Tunisia
Geoffrey Macdonald and Luke Waggoner

Exchange
I. Nativists Are Populists, Not Liberals
Ben Margulies

II. How to Tell Nativists from Populists
Takis S. Pappas

Timor-Leste Votes: Parties and Patronage
Edward Aspinall, Allen Hicken, James Scambary, and Meredith Weiss

Book in Review
The Case for Democratic Persistence
Carl Gershman
A review of Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice