Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 05/2011

Constitutional Reform in Transitional States: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Egypt and Tunisia

Jason Gluck

May 2011

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

Countries emerging from authoritarianism frequently face constitutional challenges, among them sequencing constitutional reform with a transition to democracy, designing a constitutional review process that is seen as legitimate, and addressing substantive constitutional concerns.