08 / 01 / 2009
Promoting democracy: a principled, pragmatic approach? Democracy Digest.
The inconsistencies and setbacks of George W. Bush’s Freedom Agenda should not lead the incoming Obama administration to ditch democracy promotion as a foreign policy objective, argues Gideon Rachman. “No Western governments should be comfortable about shaking hands with autocrats who torture and imprison their political opponents,” he writes in the latest Washington Quarterly. And [...]