The Challenge of an Asymmetrical World

A review of Democracy in the Americas: Stopping the Pendulum, edited by Robert A. Pastor.

For the past few decades, scholars have been focusing on the causes of democratization. It is now time to devote systematic attention to analyzing the costs and benefits that democracy…

Many critics of democracy promotion assert that the rule of law and a well-functioning state should be in place before a society democratizes, but this strategy of "sequencing" is based…