1st Edition

Democratisation in the 21st Century Reviving Transitology

238 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The 2010’s was a critical period in the continuing, established trend of the spread of democracy worldwide: from the Arab Spring countries of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen to the unfolding turmoil of Myanmar and Ukraine, by way of the upheavals in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Ivory Coast, social mobilisation against autocratic, corrupt, or military regimes has precipitated political transitions... Read more

1. Introduction: Turbulent Transitions into the 21st Century

(Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou and Timothy D. Sisk)

2. Reviving Transitology: Democratisation Then and Now

(Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou and Timothy D. Sisk)

3. Divergent and Partial Transitions

(Kateryna Pishchikova and Richard Youngs)

4. Electoral Transitions: Stumbling out of the Gate

(Pippa Norris)

5. Democratisation in the Asia-Pacific: Two Steps Forward?

(Benjamin Reilly)

6. The Transition in East Central Europe

(André Liebich)

7. Successes and Breakdowns: Democratisation in Sub-Saharan Africa

(Julien Morency-Laflamme)

8. Thirty Years Past: Transitology in the Southern Cone

(Diego Abente-Brun and Ignacio González-Bozzolasco)

9. Transitology à l’Arabe: Confirmation and Challenge

(Bahgat Korany)

10. From Transitology to Consolidology

(Philippe C. Schmitter)

Biography

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou is the Deputy Director and Academic Dean at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Adjunct Professor in the International History Department at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He is also Visiting Professor in the doctoral school at Sciences Po Paris.

Timothy D. Sisk is Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, and steering faculty of the Sié Chéou Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy, University of Denver, USA.