Via a comment on LGF, I've just been introduced to Daniel Drezner. He's a professor of political science at the University of Chicago (actually, "assistant professor", but I'm not sure what that means), and he has some good stuff. He has an article about how we're about to start the "fourth wave" of democratization in the world, which contains a great quote:
As Notre Dame political scientist Guillermo O'Donnell, writing with European University Institute scholar Philippe Schmitter, concluded in 1986, "[T]he most frequent context within which a transition from authoritarian rule has begun in recent decades has been military defeat in an international conflict. Moreover, the factor which most probabilistically assured a democratic outcome was occupation by a foreign power which was itself a political democracy [emphasis added]."
Unfortunately, his blogspot blog doesn't have an RSS feed. Now that Blogger is owned by Google, maybe they'll get their act together.
Thursday, March 13, 2003
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