Bücher der Reihe Democratization Special Issues

This volume addresses the military¿s potential political role as the midwife for democratic transitions, or the gravedigger of democratic rule. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Democratization.

Two decades after the `third wave¿ of democratization began to roll across sub-Saharan Africa, this book provides a very timely investigation into the overall progress and setbacks over that period, the many challenges that remain and the prospects for future democratization in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization

Examines the role that political Islam plays in processes of democratization in the Muslim world, detailing the political processes that facilitate the collective learning of democratic ways of solving the practical problems of those polities. This book represents an important contribution to the debate on democratization and political Islam.

Focuses on the impact of religion on democratization in a number of countries.

The book subjects international support for political parties in new and emerging democracies to detailed critical and comparative analysis, drawing on original field research findings from several countries in Europe, Africa and elsewhere.This book was published as a special issue of Democratizations.

This book defines and examines the three principal strategies of EU democracy promotion in comparative analyses of Eastern European and Arab countries in its neighbourhood and thereby specifies the conditions under which EU democracy promotion is likely to be effective and how.This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

This book defines and examines the three principal strategies of EU democracy promotion in comparative analyses of Eastern European and Arab countries in its neighbourhood and thereby specifies the conditions under which EU democracy promotion is likely to be effective and how. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

We usually portray the United States and the European Union as having mostly benign motivations and as spreading democracy and human rights over the world. At the same time, we tend to view illiberal regimes such as Putin¿s Russia, as increasingly promoting autocracy, if not on a global scale, then at least in their respective spheres of influence. This book challenges this conventional wisdom.

This volume discusses the argument that the successful transformation of rebel organization into parties is critical to stable post-conflict peace and democratization. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

The book focuses upon the impact of religion on democratization in a number of countries. This book was published as a special issue of Democratizations.