Overview
writing a paper this week, please submit your 3-page paper to this assignment. Remember: double-spaced, 12-point font, no more than 3 pages, any works cited may be listed on a fourth page, as needed. here is the question:
Can democracies be established by outsiders, as a byproduct of foreign policy? Why or why not?
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Here is the list of the reading:
Revolutions, reforms, and international influences
Lucan Way and Steven Levitsky. 2005. “International linkages and democratization.” JOD 16.3.
Valerie J. Bunce & Sharon L. Wolchik. 2006. “Favorable conditions and electoral revolutions.”JOD 17.4:5-18.
Lucan Way. 2008. “The real causes of the color revolutions.” JOD 19.3: 55-69.
Valerie Bunce & Sharon Wolchik. 2009. Getting Real about “Real Causes.” JOD 20.1: 69-73.
Lars Berger. 2011. “The Missing Link?US Policy and the International Dimensions of Failed Democratic Transitions in the Arab World.” Political Studies 59.1:38-55.
Alfred Stepan and Juan J. Linz. 2013. “Democratization and the ‘Arab Spring’.” JOD 24.2: 15-30.
Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder. 2005. “Explaining Turbulent Transitions.” Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War. BCIA Studies in International Security, pp. 39-68.
Jean Lachapelle, Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Adam E. Casey. 2020. “Social Revolution and Authoritarian Durability.” World Politics 72.4: 557-600.