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100	1		_aCAROTHERS Thomas
245			_aThe backlash against democracy promotion / _cThomas Carothers
260			_c2006
520			_aPresident 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.
650			_aDEMOCRACY
650			_aAUTHORITARIAN RULE
773			_aForeign Affairs: _gVol 85 No 2, March-April 2006, pp.55-68
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