Over the past two years, one tyrant after the next has been driven from power, if not slain, and democracy has appeared to take root in places—from Egypt to Libya and Myanmar—once considered resistant to its promise. Some world leaders and political scientists, such as Carl Gershman of America’s democracy promotion group National Endowment for Democracy, have predicted the Arab uprisings are part of a “fourth wave” of democratization, following waves of change that occurred first in the West, then in southern Europe and Asia, and then in many regions following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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