International IDEA’s Annual Review of Constitution-Building Processes provides a retrospective account of constitutional transitions around the world, the issues that drive them, and their implications for national and international politics.

This fifth edition covers events in 2017 and includes chapters on the presidential election systems in Gabon, the Gambia, Malawi and Togo; the independence referendums in Iraq and Spain; constitution-building and transitional justice in Colombia and the Gambia; citizen participation in constitution-building processes in Chile, Ireland and Mongolia; the failed constitutional reform exercise in Sri Lanka; and constitutional recognition of religious identity.

Writing at the mid-way point between the instant reactions of the blogosphere and academic analyses that follow several years later, the authors provide accounts of ongoing political transitions, the major constitutional issues they give rise to, and the implications of these processes for democracy, the rule of law and peace.