A review of Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025, by Mark Palmer.
About the Author
Thomas O. Melia is deputy director of Freedom House and consulting editor for theĀ World Encyclopedia of Parliaments and Legislatures. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
If Iraq is successfully to democratize and an inclusive democratic culture is to emerge, the Iraqi state must be reconstituted as a federal and strongly liberal system and thoroughly demilitarized.