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Ken Jowitt

Ken Jowitt is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley. This article was adapted from two longer papers that will be published in The Revolutions of 1989, edited by Daniel Chirot (University of Washington Press, 1991); and Global Restructuring and the Third World, edited by Robert O. Slater, Barry Schutz, and Steven R. Dorr (Lynne Rienner, 1992).