Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Stanford University


CDDRL News



July 11, 2007

Jeremy Weinstein, CDDRL faculty member, on "Africa's Revolutionary Deficit" in latest issue of Foreign Policy journal

In his latest published work, Jeremy Weinstein writes on the violence that has engulfed 27 of the 46 countries in subSaharan Africa since independence and how the revolutionary movements that emerged to wage these wars of "liberation" and "transformation" have rarely behaved better than the regimes they sought to uproot.