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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Blogwatch: Fukuyama on Democracy Building
Why Building Democracy is So Difficult
Posted on October 1st, 2006
by Francis Fukuyama
"While people have focused on the difficulty of building democracy in the Middle East, they should not assume its gains are consolidated elsewhere in the world. Asia was the model for how rising incomes and a growing middle class would support democratic consolidation, but Thailand’s Sept. 19 military coup shows how stable democracy needs more than wealth and a middle class..."
[read the whole article at the American Interest Online]
Written at 5:05 PM by joel.
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