A review of The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, by Samuel P. Huntington.
About the Author
Dankwart A. Rustow is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate School of the City University of New York and editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Politics.
The role of international factors varied greatly across the post-Cold War transitions to democracy, but the intensity and results of external democratizing pressure depended on two variables: linkage to the…