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League of Dictators?
Why China and Russia Will Continue to Support Autocracies
By Robert Kagan
Ever since liberalism emerged in the 18th century, its inevitable conflict with autocracy has helped shape international politics. What James Madison called "the great struggle of the epoch between liberty and despotism" dominated much of the 19th century and most of the 20th, when liberal powers lined up against various forms of autocracy in wars both hot and cold.
Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-01 |
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=150377 |
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