Alfred Stepan is Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Democracy, Toleration, and Religion at Columbia University.
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Commentaries by Alfred Stepan
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Senegal’s Resilient Democracy
DAKAR – Many commentators doubted whether democracy in Senegal, a country whose population is 95% Muslim, would survive its most recent pres…
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Africa’s Imperiled Democracy
NEW YORK – The future of one of Africa’s oldest democracies is at stake in Senegal’s presidential election on February 26. The incumbent, Ab…
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Democracy’s Dawn in Tunisia and Egypt?
CAIRO – With protests fading in Tunis and seeming to have peaked in Cairo, it is time to ask whether Tunisia and Egypt will complete democra…
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Does Egypt Need a Pharaoh?
NEW YORK – As Egypt’s revolution hangs in the balance, what factors are most likely to determine the outcome? While all eyes seem to be focu…
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Indonesia’s Democratic Islam
NEW YORK – The visit by “Barry Obama,” the Indonesian nickname for the former resident and current United States president, to Jakarta is in…
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Turkey’s Secular Fundamentalist Threat
NEW YORK -- The Chief Prosecutor of Turkey’s High Court of Appeals recently recommended to the country’s Constitutional Court that t…
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Senegal’s Democracy Put to the Test
Senegal, a country whose population is 90% Muslim, is one of the Islamic world’s most peaceful and democratic countries. This tranquility ha…
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Moving Beyond Mexico’s Crisis
As the crisis over Mexico’s disputed presidential election continues, questions are being raised not only about the conduct of the seemingly…
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Why is France Burning?
The urban disturbances in France have been called the most severe since the riots by students and workers in 1968. The analogy is misleading…
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The Arab World’s Democratic Opening
Roughly 400 million Muslims currently live in non-Arab Muslim majority states – including Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Senegal, Mali, and …
