FPRI Radio Commentary

Do The Post-Communist Transitions Offer Lessons For The Arab World?

January 30, 2012 / Philadelphia, PA

Adrian A. Basora

Ambassador Adrian Basora is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Director of the Project on Democratic Transitions, an in-depth assessment of the political, economic and social transitions of post-communist Europe/Eurasia twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Moderated by Tally Helfont.

Program length: 26 minutes

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