Includes index.

Norms of international law relating to the constitution-making process / Thomas M. Franck and Arun K. Thiruvengadam -- Constitution making and the right to take part in a public affair / Vivien Hart -- Constitution making in Eritrea : a process-driven approach / Bereket Habte Selassie -- Namibia's long walk to freedom : the role of constitution making in the creation of an independent Namibia / Marinus Wiechers -- Creating the birth certificate of a new South Africa : constitution making after apartheid / Hassen Ebrahim and Laurel E. Miller -- The politics of constitution making in Uganda / Aili Mari Tripp -- Zimbabwe's unfulfilled struggle for a legitimate constitutional order / Muna Ndulo -- The process of creating a new constitution in Cambodia / Stephen P. Marks -- East Timor's constitutional passage to independence / Louis Aucoin and Michele Brandt -- Between coups : constitution making in Fiji / Jill Cottrell and Yash Ghai -- The drafting process for the 1998 Albanian constitution / Scott N. Carlson -- The Dayton constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina / James C. O'Brien -- Constitution making and transitional politics in Hungary / Andrew Arato and Zoltan Miklosi -- Constitution making, peace building, and national reconciliation : the experience of Poland / Lech Garlicki and Zofia Garlicka -- Constitution making and democratization : the Spanish paradigm / Andrea Bonime-Blanc -- Conflict resolution and constitutionalism : the making of the Brazilian constitution of 1988 / Keith S. Rosenn -- Lessons of the Colombian constitutional reform of 1991 : toward the securing of peace and reconciliation? / Donald T. Fox, Gustavo Gallon-Giraldo, and Anne Stetson -- The Nicaraguan constitutional experience : process, conflict, contradictions, and change / Philip J. Williams and Lee Walker -- The 1999 Venezuelan constitution-making process as an instrument for framing the development of an authoritarian political regime / Allan R. Brewer-Carias -- Big tent, small tent : the making of a constitution in Afghanistan / J. Alexander Thier -- Deconstituting Mesopotamia : cutting a deal on the regionalization of Iraq / Jonathan Morrow -- Designing constitution-making processes : lessons from the past, questions for the future / Laurel E. Miller.