This timely assessment of both the progress toward democratic governance globally and the significant challenges that democracies face is the outcome of a seminar organized by the Community of Democracies. The Community is a group of more than a hundred countries devoted to the spread and consolidation of democracy around the world.
Heraldo Muñoz is a Chilean scholar, diplomat, and politician. He has served as, among numerous other posts, Chile’s foreign minister, Chile's ambassador to the United Nations, and assistant secretary general of the United Nations.
"A timely reminder that, although the international community has made progress in promoting and deepening democracy, there is still much to be done. It is up to the Community of Democracies to ensure that democracy remains high on the UN agenda."—George Soros, Open Society Institute
"This collection of distinguished essays reminds us that democracy is more widespread today than at any time in human history. It also demonstrates why each nation must build its own democracy and why, at the same time, we can and must work together as an international community to support democratization around the world."—UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
"A unique contribution on a crucial topic of our time: the promotion of democracy as the best guarantor of human dignity. Democracy Rising presents a comprehensive and insightful examination of the issues involved in countries around the world."—Claudio Grossman, The American University School of Law
"This important book is both an encouraging summary of the advances of representative government and open societies around the world and a primer for how to deepen the roots of democracy as a force to move the human condition forward."—Thomas "Mack" McLarty, Former White House Chief of Staff
"Democracy Rising lays the foundation for a better understanding of the hopes of UN members that through democracy we can end the scourge of war."—Timothy E. Wirth, United Nations Foundation
