Democracy Ascendant
Democracy's Good Name by Michael Mandelbaum ($28, Public Affairs, 2007).
At a time when the U.S. is occupying two countries thick with militarized fanatics abhorring democracy, Michael Mandelbaum, a foreign policy professor at Johns Hopkins, brings us a loving tribute to the concept. But his theories about the conditions needed for it to take root in a nondemocratic country are little comfort for Americans hoping to see successful resolution of ...
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