Caroline Baxter writes in The Christian Monitor, condemning the Bush administration for failing to support and encourage Mauritania’s 2005 transition to democracy. In light of the recent coup in the country, Baxter argues that “one of the greatest tragedies of the Bush administration’s Iraq-centric foreign policy is that ‘democracy’ has become a boo-word in the very countries that its policy theoretically seeks to transform.”
Heavy-handed democratization efforts only go so far… I think a more balanced approach of advancing Democracy from the ordinary civilians first would solidify the foundation for other military/economic democratization support.
August 20th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Heavy-handed democratization efforts only go so far… I think a more balanced approach of advancing Democracy from the ordinary civilians first would solidify the foundation for other military/economic democratization support.