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July 2002, Volume 13, Number 3
Debating the Transition Paradigm
Two scholars and two democracy-promotion practitioners respond to Thomas Carothers's controversial article The End of the Transition Paradigm ( Journal of Democracy, January 2002).- In Partial Defense of an Evanescent "Paradigm"
Guillermo O'Donnell
The coauthor of the seminal work on democratic transitions sets the record straight on what the scholarly literature actually says. - The Democratic Path
Ghia Nodia
The notion of countries being on the "path to democracy" remains valid unless and until they come up with a systemic alternative to democracy. - Retaining the Human Dimension
Kenneth Wollack
Democracy promotion is a cause-oriented mission, but a good deal of hard-headed realism goes into program planning and work. - Tilting at Straw Men
Gerald Hyman
A leading democracy specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development defends his organization's approach. - A Reply to My Critics
Thomas Carothers
The author of "The End of the Transition Paradigm" responds to each of his critics in turn.
Ivan Krastev
The gravest challenges facing democracy in the Balkans are problems not of ethnicity or postcommunism, but of citizen disaffection and disillusionment.
Globalization and Self-Government
Marc F. Plattner
Until now, globalization and democratization have been mutually reinforcing, but in the future globalization may pose serious challenges for democracy.
Democracy in Real Time
Zaki Laïdi
Globalization has fostered the spread of "democracy as procedure," but it is much less favorable to the spread of "democracy as culture."
Nicaragua Votes: The Elections of 2001
Leslie Anderson and Lawrence C. Dodd
The November elections were peaceful and competitive. For the third straight time, voters chose a conservative who embraced democratic liberties.
Middle East Studies After 9/11
- Time for an Audit
Ibrahim Karawan
Talk about the Middle East and those who study it has become understandably heated. But we can learn more through a calm assessment of the achievements and weaknesses of this field. - Defending the Discipline
Steve Heydemann
Is the field of Middle East studies as badly flawed as some critics charge? A fair-minded look at the last 10 or 15 years of research suggests otherwise. - Islamists and the Politics of Consensus
Daniel Brumberg
Middle Eastern autocracies rely ever more on repression of both their Islamist and secular critics, and therefore increasingly fear that any opening will be uncontrollable. Is there a way out? - An Exit from Arab Autocracy
Vickie Langohr
While many experts recommend postponing democratization pending the rise of a middle class, a directly political strategy may well be better.
Ian S. Spears
Often recommended as a means of ending intractable civil wars, power-sharing may in fact be least likely to work when it is most needed.
Clans, Pacts, and Politics in Central Asia
Kathleen Collins
This region's five republics have just lived through a remarkable first decade of independence that raises questions about "preconditions"-based theories of democratization.
Cape Verde: An African Exception
Peter Meyns
The small, Portuguese-speaking island republic of Cape Verde offers a suggestive case study of successful democratic consolidation.
Books in Review
- The Post-Soviet Puzzle
Thomas F. Remington
A review of Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin by Michael McFaul. - Thinking Big
Laurence Whitehead
A review of Arguing Comparative Politics by Alfred Stepan.
Election Watch
- Brief reports on elections in Algeria, Bahamas, Burkina Faso, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Hungary, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, Vanuatu, and Zimbabwe.
Documents on Democracy
- Excerpts from Sierra Leonean president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's May 19 inaugural address;
- Full text of a "Call to Action to Build Open Democratic Societies," a document issued by the Open Society Institute's Democracy Coalition Project and signed by 19 prominent democracy advocates from around the world on May 7;
- Excerpts from the "Varela Project," a petition signed by over 10,000 Cubans calling for democratic change in their country;
- Excerpts from the April 17 remarks of Xanana Gusmao, former resistance leader and winner of East Timor's first presidential election, held on April 14.
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