(Washington Post) Robert D. Kaplan - Globalization and other dynamic forces will continue to rid the world of dictatorships. Political change is nothing we need to force upon people; it's something that will happen anyway. What we have to work toward is not democracy but normality. Stabilizing newly democratic regimes, and easing the development path of undemocratic ones, should be the goal for our military and diplomatic establishments. The writer, a national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, is the author of The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War.
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