Why Democracy? Here's Why
Rudy Rummel
I have finished reading The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace by Morton H. Halperin, Joseph T. Siegle, and Michael M. Weinstein. It is published by the Council on Foreign Relations, which is very important, for it shows that the professional foreign policy community is coming around as to why promoting democracy is central to our basic values, especially the democratic peace.
The authors discussed their book at a 3/17/05 Carnegie Council meeting, and I recommend the edited transcript to you. Most important, they argue (paraphrasing):
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