Globalization, Power, and Democracy

Essays exploring a world dramatically transformed by the collapse of communism—and the prospects for democracy in that realigned reality.

The breakup of the Soviet Union's external empire in Eastern Europe, soon followed by the demise of the USSR itself, destroyed the bipolar structure that had characterized world politics for almost half a century. But while the dramatic collapse of communism left no room for doubt that the era of the Cold War had come to an end, there was very little a...