A review of The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, by Samuel P. Huntington.
About the Author
Dankwart A. Rustow is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate School of the City University of New York and editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Politics.
Democratization is never easy, smooth, or linear, but as Indonesia’s experience in building a multiparty and multiethnic democracy shows, it can succeed even under difficult and initially unpromising conditions.
