October 1997

After Twenty Years: The Future of the Third Wave

• Samuel P. Huntington

Understanding Pluralism

• Giovanni Sartori

Beyond Mobutu: Kabila and the Congo

• Michael G. Schatzberg

The Media and Democracy: A Dialogue

• Jay Rosen
• Adam Michnik

Haiti’s Flagging Transition

• Jean-Germain Gros

The Failure of Third World Nationalism

• Lahouari Addi

Bulgaria’s Symphony of Hope

• Venelin I. Ganev

How Democracies Control the Military

• Richard H. Kohn

Teaching Human Rights in Cambodia

• Kassie Neou
• Jeffrey C. Gallup

The Clash Within Civilizations

• Carl Gershman

A review of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, by Samuel P. Huntington.

Islam’s Democratic Essence?

• Ibrahim Karawan

A review of Islam and Democracy, by John L. Esposito and John O. Voll.

Documents on Democracy

Excerpts from: Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León’s state of the Union and the lower chamber president Porfirio Muñoz Ledo’s response; a communique of the June 1997 Summit of Eight; “The Homeland Belongs to Us All” by four Cuban human rights activists.

News and Notes

Violence Erupts in Congo-Brazzaville; François Furet (1927–1997); Democracy in Africa; Report on NED’s International Forum

Election Watch

Reports on elections in Albania, Bolivia, Congo-Brazzaville, Croatia, Liberia, Mali, Mexico.