Democracy and Its Discontents

February 16, 2006

Exploring the implications of the Hamas victory in last month's Palestinian elections, Leon Hadar reminds us that voting doesn’t produce peace in societies that lack the foundations of a liberal order.

This article was the cover story in the February 27th issue of The American Conservative and is available online here:

http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_02_27/cover.html


Leon Hadar is a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy and a research fellow at the Cato Institute. He is the author of Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Posted by coalition at February 16, 2006 08:15 AM

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