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Christian Welzel

Response
JUL/AUG
2009
Which Way Is History Marching?
Azar Gat, Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, and Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel
Essay
Mar/Apr
2009
How Development Leads to Democracy
Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel

Democratic institutions tend to emerge only when certain social and cultural conditions exist. But economic development and modernization push those conditions in the right direction and make democracy increasingly likely.
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In the Magazine

November/December 2009 / 6, 88
Essay
In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance
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