Despre revoluţiile orange
În Dissent:
Recent developments in the four countries that experienced ”œcolored revolutions,” however, raise questions over whether the promotion of democratic revolution from abroad significantly advances the long-term prospects for democracy–or, alternatively, has unanticipated and sometimes deleterious effects for democratic development. There are real dangers in the export of revolution as a strategy for democratization: first, the danger that democracy could come to be viewed as a tool of external statecraft rather than an indigenous development; second, that human rights organizations could compromise their ability to act as independent monitoring organizations if they involve themselves with specific political movements or come to be identified as ”œrevolutionary organizations”; third, that efforts to promote democratic revolution could produce intensified ethnic conflict and even civil war; and finally, that giving democratic revolution ”œa little extra shove” could lead to postrevolutionary situations in which democratic development is highly vulnerable to reversal.