Mandela neither demanded nor received an entirely unconditional devotion; in power he expected his compatriots to behave as assertive citizens not genuflecting disciples
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Parag KhannaParag Khanna is senior research analyst at the Brookings Institution and manages the Global Governance Initiative of the World Economic Forum. The sequel to his December 2002 essay “The Axis of Democracy” was published in In the National Interest (September 2003). Recent articlesAmerica's Interdependence Day The United States, founded in struggle against empire in the age of nationalism, must forge a sense of national interdependence in the age of globalisation. A democratic initiative seeks to make the day after 9/11 the springboard of an effort of imaginative renewal – not simply in America, but worldwide. |
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