October 1992

Volume 3, Issue 4

Nationalism and Democracy

The Islamist Challenge

Eastern Europe After Communism

A review of After the Fall: The Pursuit of Democracy in Central Europe, by Jeffery Goldfarb and Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel, by Vladimir Tismaneanu.

Election Watch

Reports on elections in the Bahamas, Burkina Faso, Congo, Croatia, the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Philippines. 

Documents on Democracy

Excerpts from: closing statements of a congress of diverse elements of the Iraqi opposition; a “Charter for American-Russian Partnership and Friendship”; Philippine president Fidel Ramos’s inaugural address; pastoral letter from the Roman Catholic Bishops of Malawi; the “Declaration of Caracas.”