The Despot's Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting by Brian Klaas

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By Brian Klaas

For the 1st time because the finish of the chilly struggle, the realm is progressively changing into much less democratic. the genuine culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. yet, argues Klaas, the West can be an associate, inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces in another country as governments in Washington, London and Brussels chase pyrrhic non permanent monetary and defense victories. pleasant hearth from Western democracies opposed to democracy in another country is just too excessive a value to pay for a myopic overseas coverage that's eventually making the realm much less wealthy, solid and democratic.

The Despot's Accomplice attracts on years of in depth interviews at the frontlines of the worldwide fight for democracy, from a poetry-reading, politician-kidnapping basic in Madagascar to Islamist torture sufferers in Tunisia, Belarusian competition activists tailed via the KGB, West African rebels, and tea-sipping contributors of the Thai junta. Cumulatively, their tales weave jointly a story of a damaged procedure on the root of democracy's worldwide retreat.

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