July 1999

Democracy as a Universal Value

• Amartya Kumar Sen

The recognition of democracy as a universally relevant system is a major revolution in thinking, and one of the main contributions of the twentieth century. While not yet universally practiced, democracy is now being taken as generally right.

Muslims and Democracy

• Abdou Filali-Ansary

Read the full essay here.

The Transformation of Central Europe

• Bronislaw Geremek

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From Liberalism to Liberal Democracy

• Marc F. Plattner

Read the full essay here.

A New Jurisprudence for Africa

• H. Kwasi Prempeh

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Korea After the Crash

• Jongryn Mo
• Chung-in Moon

Read the full essay here.

Resurrecting Sultanism

• Crawford Young

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

The Churchill Hypothesis

• Krzysztof Jasiewicz

Review of Democracy and Its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies, by Richard Rose, William Mishler, and Christian Haerpfer. 

Documents on Democracy

Excerpts from: a United Nations Commission on Human Rights resolution on the “Promotion of the Right to Democracy”; remarks by Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary of Burma’s National League for Democracy; the “Casablanca Declaration of the Arab Human Rights Movement”; Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo’s inaugural speech. 

Election Watch

Reports on elections in Algeria, Armenia, Benin, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Nepal, Panama, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey.