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The Despot's Accomplice

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

The Despot's Accomplice

By Brian Klaas

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For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. But, argues Klaas, the West is also an accomplice, inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces abroad as governments in Washington, London and Brussels chase pyrrhic short-term economic and security victories. Friendly fire from Western democracies against democracy abroad is too high a price to pay for a myopic foreign policy that is ulti...Show more

Comparative politics

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9781849046879

Publisher

C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Published year

2016

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1

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The Despot's Accomplice

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Hardcover

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