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Democracy's Hour |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Georgie Anne Geyer |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,330 Words, 14,402 Characters |
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EXPORTING DEMOCRACY
Fulfilling America's Destiny
Joshua Muravchik
Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1991
265 pp., $24.25
The ancient word democracy has, since the beginning of Gorbachev's reforms in 1985, become the leitmotif of the transformation of the Eastern bloc and, indeed, much of the putatively Marxist Third World. Socialism and repression died in spasms in the next six years; the world could only be "saved" by the new duality of democracy and free-market economies, with the United States the busy midwife to the new age.
But what exactly did this mean? Were all these peoples, used to living under patriarchal or tribal societies and accustomed to the dull routine of the socialist order, ready to leap into these long-evolving and far more sophisticated forms of ...
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... Still, we do not need to destroy the euphoria of this moment, when totalitarianism has lost and democracy has won. We must not fail to heed Joshua Muravchik's clarion call that American foreign policy should take democratization of the world as its primary duty and that President Bush should see himself "not merely as custodian of the country, but as the leader of the democratic movement."
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