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October 2001, Volume 12, Issue 4

The Chihuahua Strategy

• Ernest A. Greco

A review of Mexico’s Political Awakening, by Vikram K. Chand.

October 2001, Volume 12, Issue 4

The OAS in Peru: Room for Improvement

• Cynthia McClintock

Although the OAS helped, sudden public revelations of corruption in Peru were more important. 

July 2001, Volume 12, Issue 3

Francophone Africa in Flux

• The Editors

The Editors’ introduction to “Francophone Africa in Flux.”

April 2001, Volume 12, Issue 2

High Anxiety in the Andes

• The Editors

The Editors’ introduction to “High Anxiety in the Andes.” 

April 2001, Volume 12, Issue 2

Rediscovering Culture

• Michael Novak

A review of Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Nurturing Nationalism

• Ghia Nodia

A review of Jack Snyder's From Voting to Violence.

April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2

Explaining Communism’s Appeal

• Carl Gershman

A review of Francois Furet's last book, The Passing of an Illusion.

January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1

The 1999 Freedom House Survey: A Century of Progress

• Adrian Karatnycky

Read the full essay here.

October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4

Exploring Globalization

• Marc F. Plattner

Review of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman.

July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3

Resurrecting Sultanism

• Crawford Young

Review of Sultanistic Regimes, by H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, ed.

April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2

Clarifying Consolidation

• Philippe C. Schmitter

A review of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan.

January 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1

A Laureate’s Lament

• Richard Joseph

A review of The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis, by Wole Soyinka.

July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3

Democratization in the Middle East: Power and Opposition in Morocco

• Omar Bendourou

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July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3

Crafting Constitutions

• John M. Carey

A review of Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes, by Giovanni Sartori.

April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2

Opening the Economic Mind

• S. Gordon Redding

A review of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.

October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4

Uses of “Civil Society”

• Marc F. Plattner

A review of Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals, by Ernest Gellner.

October 1993, Volume 4, Issue 4

Fundamentalism’s Future

• Francis Fukuyama

A review of The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, by Mark Juergensmeyer.

April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2

The Morass in Moscow: The Democrats in Disarray

• Michael McFaul

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January 1993, Volume 4, Issue 1

God and the Death of Communism

• Philip J. Costopoulos

A review of The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, by  George Weigel.

April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2

Exploring the End of History

• Marc F. Plattner

A review of The End of History and the Last Man, by Francis Fukuyama.