Preface

Introduction

Chapter One Constitutional Development and Political Reconstruction from Nation-building to New Constitutionalism (Saïd Amir Arjomand)

Part I Nation-building, Modernization and Post-Colonial Reconstruction

Chapter Two Regimes Reinventing Themselves: Constitutional Development in the Arab World (Nathan Brown)

Chapter Three Constitutions and Political Reconstruction? Israel's Quest for a Constitution (Ruth Gavison)

Chapter Four A Globalizing Constitutionalism? Views from the Postcolony, 1945–2000 (Julian Go)

Chapter Five The Rule of Law and Politics of Reform in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Keyvan Tabari)

Chapter Six Post-Colonial Collages: Distributions of Power and Constitutional Models, with Special Reference to South Africa (Heinz Klug)

Chapter Seven Constitutional Engineering and Impact: the Case of Fiji (Jill Cottrell and Yash Ghai)

Part II Constitutional Reconstruction Since the Fall of Communism

Chapter Eight Parliament and the Political Class in the Constitutional Reconstruction of Poland: Two Constitutions in One (Jacek Kurczewski)

Chapter Nine Constitutionalism and the Presidency in the Russian Federation (Anders Fogelklou)

Chapter Ten Institutional Innovations and Moral Foundations of Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Coping with the Past Human Rights Violations (Grazyna Skapska)

Chapter Eleven The Constitution in the Process of Denationalization (Dieter Grimm)

Part III Constitutional Courts and the New Constitutionalism

Chapter Twelve The Role of Constitutional Courts in the Transition to Democracy, with Special Reference to Hungary (László Sólyom)

Chapter Thirteen Constitutional Negotiations: Political Contexts of Judicial Activism in Post-Soviet Europe (Kim Lane Scheppele)

Chapter Fourteen Women and the Cost of Transition to Democratic Constitutionalism in Spain (Ruth Rubio-Marín)

Chapter Fifteen Dissolution of Political Parties by the Constitutional Court in Turkey: Judicial Delimitation of the Political Domain (Dicle Kogacioglu)

List of Contributors

Index