The International Journal
of Not-for-Profit Law
Volume 6, Issue 1, September 2003
A publication of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Religion and NGOs
Introductory Letter from the Guest Editors
W. Cole Durham, Jr. and Elizabeth A. Sewell
A Practical Comparison of the Laws of Religion of Colombia and Chile
Scott E. Isaacson
Faith-Based NGOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mojca Leban
Refah Partisi (The Welfare Party) and Others v. Turkey
Christian Moe
The Impact of the New Czech Law on Churches
Petr Pajas
Russian Federation Constitutional Court Decisions on Russia's 1997 Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations"
Marina Thomas
God and Caesar: Personal Reflections on Politics and Religion
Shirley Williams
Articles
Should Foundations Exist in Perpetuity?
Robert O. Bothwell
The Charity/Business Duet: Harmony or Discord?
Andrew Phillips (Lord Phillips of Sudbury)
From Benin to Baltimore: Civil Society and Its Limits
Sally J. Scott, Ph.D.
Reviews
Global Civil Society: An Overview
By Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, and Regina List
Reviewed by Jonathan Nelms
The Changing and Unchanging Face of U.S. Civil Society
By Marcella Ridlen Ray
Civil Society: The American Model and Third World Development
By Howard J. Wiarda
Freedom in the World 2003: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties
By Freedom House
Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America
Edited by Hugh Heclo and Wilfred M. McClay
The State of Nonprofit America
Edited by Lester M. Salamon
Terrorism and Development: Using Social and Economic Development to Inhibit a Resurgence of Terrorism
By Kim Cragin and Peter Chalk
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Freedom In The World 2003: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties
By Freedom House.
Edited by Adrian Karatnycky, Aili Piano, and Arch Puddington.
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
713 pp. $75 hardcover, $29.95 paper.
Begun in 1972, this annual survey ranks the world's countries (plus related and disputed territories) by relative degrees of freedom. Coeditor Adrian Karatnycky, a senior scholar and counselor at Freedom House, writes an introductory overview, followed by an essay by Sumantra Bose on ethno-national conflict and one by Michael Shifter on the future of Latin American democracy. Country-by-country notes then comprise the bulk of the book.
Whereas just 29 percent of the nations in the world qualified as "free" in 1972, 46 percent so qualify today--the highest in the survey's history. During the past year, 28 countries have moved toward freedom and 11 have moved away from it. Statistics suggest, then, that the war on terrorism has not produced greater repression overall, Karatnycky writes, though he adds a caveat: "[I]t is important to note that most of the significant upward momentum for freedom has occurred preponderantly in countries in which the impact of ideological terrorism has thus far been marginal or absent. Additionally, many of the countries confronting transnational terrorism are established democracies with a strong rule of law and have successfully preserved a wide array of personal, political, and civil freedoms...."