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And the walls came tumbling down: the world's last holdout against democracy--the Middle East--is experiencing a wave of nascent freedom.
That creaking sound in January may have been the hinge of fate in the Middle East. Gates that have long barred democracy from the region began to swing ajar. Dramatic elections held in Iraq and the embryonic state of Palestine (following a gripping vote a few months earlier in nearby Afghanistan) may have unfrozen the locks that sealed this region off from the democratizing trend that has swept the rest of the globe over the past 30 years.
Beginning in Portugal in 1974, a democracy wave rippled over southern Europe, then Latin America, large parts of East Asia, eventually the former Soviet bloc, and even sub-Saharan Africa. Today, as a result, some 61 percent of ...
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