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Engaging Autocratic Allies to Promote Democracy
- The Washington Quarterly
- The MIT Press
- Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 2006
- pp. 7-26
- Article
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Diplomacy, particularly with dictatorships friendly toward the United States, is often overlooked as a means to promote democratic regime change. Yet, a closer look at three forgotten cases from the late 1980s yields several lessons for today's efforts to engage but reform autocratic allies.