The failure of democratic nation building ideology meets evolution

Democracy requires very special 'enabling conditions' before it can be supported by a state, conditions that require decades to evolve. As a result, attempts to export democracy through nation-building to states without these enabling conditions are doomed to failure

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Somit, Albert (Author), Peterson, Steven A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2005
Subjects:	Democracy Democratization United State > Foreign relations
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