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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (34596)7/18/2002 12:46:44 PM
From: JohnM   of 281500
 
Voting is not based on issues or parties as we know them, but on clan or ethnic lines. The winning parties use their positions not to build the nation but to advance the interests of their own group. Other groups become aggrieved, and seek redress in extralegal ways.

Robert Kaplan makes much the same points in some of his work, in which he argues that the first order of business should be some form of stability which promises a better life for most, then begin to worry about democracy. I'm well into Stephen Cohen's recent book on Russia, Failed Crusade, in which he argues somewhat the same point.
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