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Christian Herter Professor, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
March 5, 2000
Article
The Washington Post
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February 27, 2008
Audio
Listen to Michael Mandelbaum, the Christian Herter professor at the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies, discuss his book, Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government.
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October 25, 2006
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the social, political, and economic implications of the U.S. population surpassing 300 million.
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September 2002
Book
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the creation of wealth. While not practiced everywhere, these ideas have—for the first time in history—no serious rivals as methods for organizing the world’s politics, economics, and international relations.
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March 2000
Book
The European upheavals of the twentieth century have left in their wake a series of national minorities in eastern Europe. These “new diasporas” have been created by the movement not of people, but of borders. The politics of four of these European “national triads” is the focus of this important book.
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July 1998
Book
This book offers the first authoritative, comprehensive account of Russian policies toward the world in the wake of communism’s collapse. It consists of four essays.
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January 1997
Book
The dislocations caused by the transition from communism—in particular unemployment and poverty—have increased the demand for social support. But the level of benefits set in the communist era is, in most of these countries, too high to be sustained without inflicting serious damage on their economies.
See more in Central/Eastern Europe, Democracy Promotion, Society and Culture
January 1996
Book
How have the twenty-seven countries that emerged from communist rule between 1989 and 1992 fared since then? Postcommunism: Four Perspectives offers distinctive analyses by four leading scholars of politics, on the single most important social, political, and economic development of the last decade of the twentieth century.
See more in Democracy Promotion
September/October 2007
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Despite the failure of U.S. democracy-promotion efforts, democracy is spreading across the globe, bolstered by the free market. Although the Arab world, China, and Russia present challenges, pressure for democratic governance will only grow as economies liberalize in the years to come.
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September/October 2002
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
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December 31, 2002
Interview
June 26, 2003
Op-Ed
Newsday
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