CAROTHERS Thomas <br/><br/>
The backlash against democracy promotion / 
Thomas Carothers 
 -  2006 
<br/><br/> President Bush has made democratisation a central theme of his foreign policy. But in countries as far apart as Russia and Zimbabwe this high profile is being used by authoritarian governments as a means of rejecting democratic principles. Denouncing the ideas and the Western NGOs that support them as unwarranted meddling in internal affairs is a useful way of maintaining strongman political systems. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>DEMOCRACY<br/>AUTHORITARIAN RULE