Spring 1991

China and the Lessons of Eastern Europe

• Liu Binyan

Democracy’s Third Wave

• Samuel P. Huntington

Russia’s New Constitution

• Oleg Rumyantsev

The Crisis of Perestroika

• Gail W. Lapidus

Nigeria’s Search for a New Political Order

• Larry Diamond

Egypt’s Uneasy Party Politics

• Gehad Auda

Can Yugoslavia Survive?

• Mihajlo Mihajlov

The Korean Experiment

• Sung-Joo Han

Overcoming Underdevelopment

• Hernando de Soto
• Deborah Orsini

Shortcuts to Liberty

• Nancy Bermeo

A review of To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions, by Giuseppe Di Palma.

The Nations of the USSR

• Martha Brill Olcott

A review of Hidden Nations: The People Challenge the Soviet Union, by Nadia Diuk and Adrian Karatnycky.

Election Watch

Reports on elections in Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Cape Verde, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, São Tomé & Príncipe, and Yugoslavia. 

Documents on Democracy

Excerpts from: the draft constitution of the Russian Republic; a letter from the mayor of Budapest, Hungary to the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania; the inaugural address Haitian president, Reverend Jean-Bertrand Astride.

News and Notes

Coup in Thailand; Chinese Protesters Sentenced; Soviet Democratic Congress Convenes; Freedom in the World; Democratic Transition and Structural Adjustment in Nigeria Examined; Newsletters Focus on Democratic Progress; Journal of Democracy published in Spanish; Charles Guy Gillespie (1958-1991).