Just a note to remind me that the Winter 2008 issue of Orbis has a symposium on entitled “Assessing Democratic Transitions Today.” Here is the partial table of contents:
| Introduction | Adrian A. Basora |
| Must Democracy Continue to Retreat in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia? | Adrian A. Basora |
| The Tasks of Democratic Transition and Transferability | Valerie Bunce |
| Ukraine: Lessons Learned from Other Post-Communist Transitions | Mykola Riabchuk |
| Central Asia: U.S. Bases and Democratization | Alexander Cooley |
| East and South East Asia: Lessons from Democratic Transitions | Tom Ginsburg |
| Can Outsiders Bring Democracy to Post-Conflict States? | John R. Schmidt |
Clouds, Clocks, and Sitting at Tables 