Spring 2025

Momentous events tend to shift political allegiances. They bring into sharp relief underlying affinities otherwise masked by more mundane preoccupations and they highlight the potential for reviving latent traditions and generating new movements.

With reform ferment in the Arab world, an emerging democracy in Iraq, and the colour-coded democratic revolutions in post-communist societies, a hitherto relatively obscure field of global civic activism has acquired political salience and strategic significance. The US administration’s renewed …