Continuation of Prof. Gail Kligman’s speech as a panelist in “Vulnerabilities of the New Democracies” the fourth panel of the “Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Struggle for Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe" international conference held at CEU in March 1999. After Prof. Gail Kligman’s speech the chairman of the panel John Lampe (Professor at the University of Maryland) introduces Prof. Kazimierz Poznanski (University of Washington) who delivers his speech.