“Civil” and Other Societies

Emerging from one of the world’s most notorious failed states, Somaliland has become an oasis of relative democratic stability in the troubled Horn of Africa. What does its story teach…

A review of South Africa: The Political Economy of Transformation, edited by Stephen John Stedman. 

The story of this small former Yugoslav republic offers an example of how—if circumstances are right—it may be possible for a country to reform its way out of communism and…