This book examines Islam’s relationship to democratization in the Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives. It explores how and why an electoral democracy based in

The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country of contradicti

In 1998, Indonesia's military government collapsed, creating a crisis that many believed would derail its democratic transition. Yet the world's most populous M

This volume explores the relationship between religion and politics generally, as well as the global wave of democratization in the late twentieth century, as b

While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several policy choices have strained its relationship with the