"This book provides a novel account of the decades following the Second World War in the western half of Europe through the prism of its democratisation. Previous experiences of democracy in Europe had not tended to end well; but Western Europe after 1945 witnessed the establish…
The spread of democracy and human rights over the last three decades has dramatically changed the international landscape. In 1989, just over 2 billion people lived in one of the 69 countries considered an electoral democracy. Today, those numbers have almost doubled, with more …
This volume is the most recent of a comprehensive effort by R.J. Rummel to understand and place in historical perspective the entire subject of genocide and mass murder, or what he calls democide. It is the fifth in a series of volumes in which he offers a detailed analysis of t…
Huntington examines the causes, processes, and prospects of democratization since 1974, years during which more than 30 countries abandoned authoritarian rule. Drawing material from both the Second and Third Worlds, he explains why there was such a burst of democratization in th…
Huntington examines the causes, processes, and prospects of democratization since 1974, years during which more than 30 countries abandoned authoritarian rule. Drawing material from both the Second and Third Worlds, he explains why there was such a burst of democratization in th…