Negotiating Under Coercion: What Can We Expect?
Cuba comes to the table at a steep disadvantage, with a noose around its neck and a gun to its head. Little, if anything, can be expected…
We Are a Bottle Full of the Dead
To be born under a dictatorship is to be born with a priori fear — you have it, you live it, you suffer it, and often you don't even realize that it’s…
The 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution – the peaceful uprising that toppled a dictatorship and ended a decade of colonial war
Five decades after the revolution erupted, Portugal has followed a unique path to democracy…
Cuba: A Critique of Despotic Reason
The silences, half-truths, concealments, and deceptions that the region's leftists dispense to their critical peers on the island and, in general, to the entire population are expensive. They impact thousands of concrete…