[Mb-civic] Exporting Democracy Is Not for the Naive

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Exporting Democracy Is Not for the Naive 
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By Charles Edel
Charles Edel is a research associate for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

February 27 2005

Tired of being lectured by the United States, Russian Defense Minister Sergei B. Ivanov recently complained that "democracy is not a potato that you can transplant from one kitchen garden to another." 

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