Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government - Softcover

Mandelbaum, Michael

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The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkably rapid rise of democracies around the world. In 1975, only thirty countries were democracies. Today, 119 of the world’s 190 countries are democratic. How did democracy establish itself so quickly and so widely? Why do some important countries and regions remain undemocratic?

In Democracy’s Good Name, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America’s leading foreign policy thinkers, answers these questions. He discusses the relationship between democracy, on the one hand, and war and terrorism, on the other, and assesses the prospects for the establishment of democracy in Russia, China, and the Arab world. And he explains why the United States has found it so difficult to foster democratic governments in other countries.

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About the Author

Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is the author of eleven books, including The Ideas That Conquered the World and The Case For Goliath.

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ISBN 10:  1586485148 ISBN 13:  9781586485146
Publisher: PublicAffairs, 2007
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