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| | Amazon.ca: Future Of Freedom: Books: Fareed Zakaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Zakaria provides a much-needed intellectual framework for many current foreign policy dilemmas, arguing that the United States should support a liberalizing dictator like Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf, be wary of an elected "thug" like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and take care to remake Afghanistan and Iraq into societies that are not merely democratic but free. |
 | | Zakaria's thesis is that we live in a democratic age, but we'd be better off with less democracy, not more. |
 | | Zakaria, following Richard Holbrooke, is concerned about the proliferation of illiberal democracies -- that is, governments in which the majority rule, thus satisfying democracy's procedural requirement, but which produce substantive outcomes at odds with Constitutional democracy -- protection of minority rights, property, due process and the like. |
| www.amazon.ca /Future-Freedom-Fareed-Zakaria/dp/0393047644 (2309 words) |
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