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Rita Abrahamsen and Paul Williams have argued that contemporary democracy promotion emerges as a product of a hard-won Cold War struggle fought in the name of democracy and freedom. These values, they say, reemerged in the post-Cold War era at a time of capitalism’s historic triumph over communism. As a result, the promotion of democracy became an intrinsic part of Western-led globalization in the millennium and the focus of a new liberal development ideology.1
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Edozie, R.K. (2010). New Encounters in U.S.-Africa Democracy Relations: Less of the Same?. In: Mangala, J. (eds) Africa and the New World Era. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117303_14
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