September 26, 2003

Lessons From Lost Democracies

By DAVID GLENN

The collapse of elected governments may have something to teach us about nation-building

Despite the chaos and conflict of the past eight months in Iraq, many ordinary Iraqis share the Bush administration's publicly stated goal: Build an authentic democracy amid the clamorous ruin of their nation.

In doing so, the natural impulse might be to turn to the millions of words written during the past decade by political scientists who have analyzed the newborn democracies in South

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