Lawyers and Liberal Democracy

In the summer of 1997, I was asked by a leading Japanese newspaper what I thought was the most important thing that had happened in the twentieth century. I found…

The beauty of Mexico’s transition to democracy lay in the way it evolved gradually and peacefully over the course of a decade.

Since the early 1990s, many African countries have undergone political liberalization, and so far this trend has been accompanied by a significant drop in the incidence of military coups.