Age of the Autocrat
August 26th, 2008 by Sarah
Francis Fukuyama in the Washington Post contests the claim that we are entering the “Age of the Autocrat,” despite the rise of countries employing a combination of “authoritarianism and modernization that offers a clear challenge to liberal democracy.” Fukuyama recommends a more nuanced conceptual framework for understanding the non-democratic world. “Democracies don’t automatically all have the same interests (just look at the clashing U.S. and European views on Iraq), and neither do autocracies. Nor does the fact that a country is authoritarian determine the way it will behave internationally.”
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