TY  - BOOK
AU  - CAROTHERS Thomas
TI  - The backlash against democracy promotion
PY  - 2006///
KW  - DEMOCRACY
KW  - AUTHORITARIAN RULE
N2  - 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
ER  -