De gelauwerde site Foreign Policy is een nieuw initiatief gestart: Democracy Lab. Daarop staan analyses, expertblogs en interviews die een beeld moeten geven van de revolutionaire ontwikkelingen in de Arabische wereld. De gedachte achter dit nieuwe project volgens Foreign Policy:
When World War II came to an end, there were only a dozen or so democracies in the world. Today there are 115. Many of the current members of the club joined within the last quarter-century — a group whose members range from tiny Estonia to enormous Indonesia. The current wave of revolution sweeping through the Middle East is only the latest chapter in a broader global shift toward open societies. This is the story that Foreign Policy’s Democracy Lab aims to track.











