Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary material / S.A. Arjomand -- Chapter One. Constitutional development and political reconstruction from nation-building to new constitutionalism -- Chapter Two. Regimes reinventing themselves: Constitutional development in the arab world / Nathan Brown -- Chapter Three. Constitutions and political reconstruction? Israel’s by 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 -- 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 -- 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 / S.A. Arjomand -- Index / S.A. Arjomand.

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The themes of nation-building, post-colonial modernization and constitution-making, post-communist return to the rule of law and constitutional reconstruction, the global expansion of judicial power and judicial activism by the constitutional courts are usually studied by different specialists with somewhat narrow foci. This book is a unique and ambitious interdisciplinary attempt at the integration of these related fields, and offers a timely theoretical synthesis of the most important global constitutional trends in the last half-century. These essays by prominent authorities on different subjects and geographical areas offer a comprehensive, comparative view of the most important constitutional developments of two eras, bringing together the transplantation of the constitutional pattern of the nation-state and the current wave of globalization of constitutionalism and the rule of law. Contributors are: S.A.Arjomand, Nathan J. Brown, Ruth Gavison, Julian Go, Keyvan Tabari, Heinz Klug, Jill Cottrell, Yash Ghai, László Sólyom, Jacek Kurczewski, Anders Fogelklou, Grażyna Skąpska, Dieter Grimm, Kim Lane Scheppele, Ruth Rubio Marín , and Dicle Kogacioğlu.