Democracy’s Third Wave

Issue Date Spring 1991
Volume 2
Issue 2
Page Numbers 12-34
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About the Author

Samuel P. Huntington was Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. His many books include The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991) and The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996).

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Volume 12, Issue 4

Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: The Impact of Nationalism

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Volume 11, Issue 1

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