The backlash against democracy promotion / Thomas Carothers
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Foreign Affairs Vol 85 No 2, March-April 2006, pp.55-68Summary: 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.
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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.
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