WHAT TO KNOW MORE?: I

WHAT TO KNOW MORE?: I always feel slightly uncomfortable writing essays where I’m not allowed to use footnotes. My latest TNR essay is a case in point, since I cite a lot of people. So, for those who are curious, here’s the references and background: You can find John W. Dower’s pessimism about comparing the ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

WHAT TO KNOW MORE?: I always feel slightly uncomfortable writing essays where I'm not allowed to use footnotes. My latest TNR essay is a case in point, since I cite a lot of people. So, for those who are curious, here's the references and background: You can find John W. Dower's pessimism about comparing the occupation of Japan to the situation in Iraq here. The quotation comes from this Guardian essay from last November. Edward Said's quote comes from this screed. The book Samuel Huntington wrote before The Clash of Civilizations was entitled The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. The (brief) discussion of the second wave of democratization is on pp. 18-21. The O'Donnell and Schmitter quotation comes from their 1986 book, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions About Uncertain Democracies, p. 17-18. The work by Jeffrey Kopstein and David Reilly on democratic transition in the post-communist space comes from their article, "Geographic Diffusion and the Transformation of the Postcommunist World," in the October 2000 issue of World Politics; here's the online abstract. Here's the draft version of the paper. The most recent Freedom House country rankings of political rights and civil liberties can be found here. The Human Rights Watch assessment of Northern Iraq comes from their 2003 World Report, which is really a survey of human rights around the globe in 2002. The quotation comes from this section. This Ian Urbina op-ed has a nice discussion of the democratization process taking place in the outlying parts of the Middle East. Finally, The Journal of Democracy devoted much of its October 2002 issue to the question of democracy in the Middle East. You can click on the (brief) article summaries here.

WHAT TO KNOW MORE?: I always feel slightly uncomfortable writing essays where I’m not allowed to use footnotes. My latest TNR essay is a case in point, since I cite a lot of people. So, for those who are curious, here’s the references and background: You can find John W. Dower’s pessimism about comparing the occupation of Japan to the situation in Iraq here. The quotation comes from this Guardian essay from last November. Edward Said’s quote comes from this screed. The book Samuel Huntington wrote before The Clash of Civilizations was entitled The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. The (brief) discussion of the second wave of democratization is on pp. 18-21. The O’Donnell and Schmitter quotation comes from their 1986 book, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions About Uncertain Democracies, p. 17-18. The work by Jeffrey Kopstein and David Reilly on democratic transition in the post-communist space comes from their article, “Geographic Diffusion and the Transformation of the Postcommunist World,” in the October 2000 issue of World Politics; here’s the online abstract. Here’s the draft version of the paper. The most recent Freedom House country rankings of political rights and civil liberties can be found here. The Human Rights Watch assessment of Northern Iraq comes from their 2003 World Report, which is really a survey of human rights around the globe in 2002. The quotation comes from this section. This Ian Urbina op-ed has a nice discussion of the democratization process taking place in the outlying parts of the Middle East. Finally, The Journal of Democracy devoted much of its October 2002 issue to the question of democracy in the Middle East. You can click on the (brief) article summaries here.

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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