Publications

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To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions. By Guiseppe Di Palma. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990). Self-Determination in the New World Order. By Morton H. Halperin and David J. Scheffer with Patricia L. Small. (Washington, DC.: Carnegie Endowment...

A main focus of this issue of Orbis is how best to achieve democracy. If any country can claim to have written the primer on this subject, for the years following the Second World War, it is the Republic...

On December 3, 1992, the U.N. Security Council, concluding that the situation in Somalia had become “intolerable,” authorized the dispatch of military forces to ensure the distribution of humanitarian assistance in a land beset by widespread starvation and suffering,...

Political democracy, in the sense of majority rule, has had virtually nothing to do with the rapid growth of East Asian economies. Rather, growth has been achieved primarily by economic liberalization and limiting the role of government in economic...

When Niccolo Machiavelli wrote the words, “There is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things,” he could hardly have imagined the extensive...

The Clinton administration has made spreading democracy, along with halting the spread of destabilizing weaponry and modernizing the armed forces, one of the central organizing principles of its foreign policy. This position echoes rising voices from various ends of...

In a recent speech, Martin Indyk, national security advisor for Near East and South Asia, stated that the United States should “help the people and governments of the Middle East to confront this emerging threat ,...

In the former Soviet satellite states of Central Europe and the Balkans, citizenries that ousted their communist regimes have begun to set up liberal democratic governments. If they are to succeed, these new regimes will need functioning party systems...

Twice before in this century a victorious America struggled to balance its wartime commitment to global democracy with competing postwar national interests. Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 rhetoric about selfdetermination and collective security soon yielded to such domestic priorities as Great...