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The Third Wave
Democratization in the Late 20th Century
By Samuel P. Huntington
Volume 4 in the Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
"Samuel Huntington’s The Third Wave, a survey of the last fifteen years of democratic change, transforms the democratic euphoria of the revolutions of 1989 into something less breathtaking, but more enduring: cautious optimism . . . Huntington brilliantly sets out and orders the reality of the last two decades of change, imposing no unwieldy theoretical structures, making no unsupportable claims. If his judgment is remarkably, perhaps frustratingly, tempered, that is all the more reason to trust it."-Freedom Review
"An exceptionally important-and also brilliant-book. Though Huntington would disclaim the distinction, it does stamp him as a democratic Machiavelli." Zbigniew Brzezinsky
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