Addition to the Blogroll

Transitions Online runs a weblog, Transition Trends, which we've added to the blogroll. Here's their explanatory blub:

Transition Trends is a blog about building democracies. It compares efforts in the post-Communist sphere with similar changes in the wider Middle East and beyond. It aims to be a running how-to guide—and a how-not-to guide—for promoting democracy, bringing together democratization’s practitioners and policy makers, many of whom, like its anonymous author, now work across all these areas and back and forth between them at intervals.

One of their recent posts carried a quote from the always forthright if not always diplomatic Richard Holbrooke regarding the increasing likelihood that Yushchenko will be president of Ukraine -- "Why is it that Putin seems to be the only one who doesn't get it?"