The Best Way to Spread Democracy Abroad? Welcome Foreign Students (Bloomberg Businessweek)

From the article:

As Washington wonders how to encourage democratic reform in North Korea, Burma, and Iran and how to shore up new democracies in the Middle East and Africa, it seems clear what not to do: invasion. On measures of civil and political rights, countries we have invaded (Afghanistan, Iraq) are roughly equal with those we haven’t (Iran and Burma, respectively).

As it turns out, soft power may be far more effective.

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