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050 00 $aE840$b.D34 2000
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100 1 $aDalpino, Catharin E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99025714
245 10 $aDeferring democracy :$bpromoting openness in authoritarian regimes /$cCatharin E. Dalpino.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bBrookings Institution Press,$c[2000], ©2000.
263 $a0011
300 $ax, 137 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- The right thing for the wrong reason : when rulers reform -- Mothers and mobile phone mobs : renegotiating civil society -- Radicals and radios : the U.S. response -- Supporting liberalization without sinking it : recommendations and conclusions
520 1 $a"The Third Wave - the democratic revolution that marked the end of the cold war - broke the communist monopoly in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and leavened authoritarianism with democratic experiments in several countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Fully one-third of the world's people, however, must still contend with repressive governments.
520 8 $aIn several of these countries, authoritarian regimes endure because they have launched cautious reforms designed to improve the lives of everyday citizens while fending off any direct challenge to their political supremacy. Because they are determined to hold onto power, these governments are broadly viewed as political intransigents, out of step with post-cold war democratic governments. Some are also the subject of intense policy debates because they play important roles in U.S. security and economic policy.
520 8 $aBut examined on their own merits, several of these states are taking incremental steps that in the long term could lead to more open, just, and democratic societies.".
520 8 $a"Catharin Dalpino takes a fresh look at the prospects for political change in these countries. She examines in detail how countries such as China and Iran, ranked among the most repressive by Western standards, are "opening windows to political and social reform." Although Leninism lingers in China, the regime there has commenced market and other economic reforms. In Iran, the nature of the Islamic republic is under review.
520 8 $aIn the traditional monarchies of the Middle East, a new generation of leaders is assuming power and demonstrating a more pragmatic approach to government. Dalpino maintains that U.S. policy must focus first on supporting these emerging social and political trends, deemphasizing short-term human rights and democracy strategies and reinforcing more subtle attitudinal and institutional changes in both state and society.
520 8 $aShe offers a fifteen-point directive for U.S. policy to help enlarge political space and strengthen civic sectors in these important countries."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1989-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
650 0 $aWorld politics$y1989-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004173
650 0 $aAuthoritarianism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009788
650 0 $aDemocratization.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98003467
650 0 $aPolitical development.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000119
650 0 $aSocial movements.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123979
852 00 $bleh$hE840$i.D34 2000