open Democracy News Analysis - Democratic failure: festering lilies smell worse than weeds, Anatol Lieven - Comments http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-opening/failure_2968.jsp Comments for "Democratic failure: festering lilies smell worse than weeds, Anatol Lieven " en Democratic failure: festering lilies smell worse than weeds, Anatol Lieven http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-opening/failure_2968.jsp &#147;We must keep firmly in mind that democracies can fail.&#148; The barriers to democratic progress in the world today are far deeper than Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hilton allow, while Roger Scruton&#146;s depiction of &#147;the west and the rest&#148; is equally flawed, argues Anatol Lieven.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-opening/failure_2968.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-opening/failure_2968.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-opening/failure_2968.jsp#comment democracy &amp; power Anatol Lieven opening democracy Original Copyright the americas Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0100 2968 at http://www.opendemocracy.net