Hugh Pope

Author, Reporter, Editor

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Writer of books on Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia. Formerly Director of Communications & Outreach and Turkey/Cyprus Project Director for International Crisis Group. Ex-Turkey & Middle East staff correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

Tag: Democracy

  • Democratic Wisdom from the 1930s

    Democratic Wisdom from the 1930s

    While researching the history of random selection in democracies, this 1936 book by a French parliamentarian struck me as full of common sense about the problems with elections-based rule.

  • US media in the Middle East – letter to Democracy Journal

    In its Spring 2010 edition, the Washington DC-based periodical Democracy: A Journal of Ideas published this letter from me arguing that American media’s responsibility for the U.S. invasion of Iraq results from a broader problem than just a tendency to kow-tow to the former government of President Bush … a situation I’d come to see…