Democratisation of Disempowerment

Jochen Hippler is a political scientist and peace researcher based at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is the former Director of the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam, and author of Nation-Building (Pluto, 2005) and The Next Threat (Pluto, 1995).

• 1. Jochen Hippler: Third World Democratisation after the End of the Cold War2. Joel RocAmara: Social Movement and the Process of Democratisation in the Phillipines3. Xabler Gorostiaga: Democracy in Central America after the End of the Cold War.4. Peter Schraeder: The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same. African Elites and the Process of Democratisation.5. Claude Ake: The Democratisation of Disempowerment6. Niala Maharaj: The Media and Weakening of Democracy in the Caribbean.7. Achin Vanalk and Praful Bidwal: Communalism and the Democratic Process in India8. Azmi Bishara: Democratisation in the Middel East9. Joe Stork: Oil, Islam, Israel: How the US Subverts Democratic Change in the Middle East.10. Basker Vashee: Democracy and Development in the 1990s11. Asgedet Ghirmazion: The German Policy Towards Third World Democracy12. .Susan George: Democratisation and Good Governance: How the World Bank Discovers the Third World as an Actor13. Franz Nuscheler: Preconditions of Democratic Development in the South.14. Lisa Laakso: Whose Democracy? Which Democratization?