Kathryn Stoner is a senior fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, deputy director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and faculty director of the Susan Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies at Stanford University. Michael McFaul the Peter and Helen Bing Sr. Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political pcience at Stanford University. Previously he served as senior director for Russia in the National Security Council of President Barack Obama. He was appointed the United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation in January 2012.

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• Introduction Chapter 1. Transitional Successes and Failures: The International-Domestic NexusPart I: Successful Transition Cases Chapter 2. The Soviet Union and Russia: The Collapse of 1991 and the Initial Transition to Democracy in 1993Chapter 3. Poland: International Pressure for a Negotiated Transition, 1981–1989Chapter 4. Serbia: Evaluating the Bulldozer RevolutionChapter 5. Ukraine: External Actors and the Orange RevolutionChapter 6. Indonesia: Economic Crisis, Foreign Pressure, and Regime ChangeChapter 7. South Africa: Enabling LiberationChapter 8. Chile: Coordinating a Successful Democratic TransitionPart II: Incremental Transition CasesChapter 9. Ghana: Democratic Transition, Presidential Power, and the World BankChapter 10. Mexico: International Influences but "Made in Mexico"Chapter 11. South Korea: The Puzzle of Two TransitionsChapter 12. Turkey: The Counterintuitive Transition of 1983Part III: Failed Transition CasesChapter 13. Algeria: An Aborted TransitionChapter 14. Iran: The Genealogy of a Failed TransitionChapter 15. China: The Doomed Transitional Moment of 1989Chapter 16. Azerbaijan: Losing the Transitional MomentList of Contributors Index

Kathryn Stoner is a senior fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, deputy director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and faculty director of the Susan Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies at Stanford University. Michael McFaul the Peter and Helen Bing Sr. Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political pcience at Stanford University. Previously he served as senior director for Russia in the National Security Council of President Barack Obama. He was appointed the United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation in January 2012.

The book is solid in scholarship, methodology, and organization. Choice

• Introduction Chapter 1. Transitional Successes and Failures: The International-Domestic NexusPart I: Successful Transition Cases Chapter 2. The Soviet Union and Russia: The Collapse of 1991 and the Initial Transition to Democracy in 1993Chapter 3. Poland: International Pressure for a Negotiated Transition, 1981–1989Chapter 4. Serbia: Evaluating the Bulldozer RevolutionChapter 5. Ukraine: External Actors and the Orange RevolutionChapter 6. Indonesia: Economic Crisis, Foreign Pressure, and Regime ChangeChapter 7. South Africa: Enabling LiberationChapter 8. Chile: Coordinating a Successful Democratic TransitionPart II: Incremental Transition CasesChapter 9. Ghana: Democratic Transition, Presidential Power, and the World BankChapter 10. Mexico: International Influences but "Made in Mexico"Chapter 11. South Korea: The Puzzle of Two TransitionsChapter 12. Turkey: The Counterintuitive Transition of 1983Part III: Failed Transition CasesChapter 13. Algeria: An Aborted TransitionChapter 14. Iran: The Genealogy of a Failed TransitionChapter 15. China: The Doomed Transitional Moment of 1989Chapter 16. Azerbaijan: Losing the Transitional MomentList of Contributors Index

Kathryn Stoner is a senior fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, deputy director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and faculty director of the Susan Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies at Stanford University. Michael McFaul the Peter and Helen Bing Sr. Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political pcience at Stanford University. Previously he served as senior director for Russia in the National Security Council of President Barack Obama. He was appointed the United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation in January 2012.

The book is solid in scholarship, methodology, and organization. Choice

• Introduction Chapter 1. Transitional Successes and Failures: The International-Domestic NexusPart I: Successful Transition Cases Chapter 2. The Soviet Union and Russia: The Collapse of 1991 and the Initial Transition to Democracy in 1993Chapter 3. Poland: International Pressure for a Negotiated Transition, 1981–1989Chapter 4. Serbia: Evaluating the Bulldozer RevolutionChapter 5. Ukraine: External Actors and the Orange RevolutionChapter 6. Indonesia: Economic Crisis, Foreign Pressure, and Regime ChangeChapter 7. South Africa: Enabling LiberationChapter 8. Chile: Coordinating a Successful Democratic TransitionPart II: Incremental Transition CasesChapter 9. Ghana: Democratic Transition, Presidential Power, and the World BankChapter 10. Mexico: International Influences but "Made in Mexico"Chapter 11. South Korea: The Puzzle of Two TransitionsChapter 12. Turkey: The Counterintuitive Transition of 1983Part III: Failed Transition CasesChapter 13. Algeria: An Aborted TransitionChapter 14. Iran: The Genealogy of a Failed TransitionChapter 15. China: The Doomed Transitional Moment of 1989Chapter 16. Azerbaijan: Losing the Transitional MomentList of Contributors Index