Booknotes+ : Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"
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The Importance of Human Rights in the High Social Echelons
There is much virtue signaling about the poor and vocal concern for human rights. This may actually succeed in work in Ukraine, but it's not going to happen elsewhere. We've seen this in Sudan where we had been promoting a democratic alternative and it exploded in our faces. And neither the pro-democracy demonstrators in the streets nor the autocrats in power have bureaucratic experience or the analytical discipline to run a well-functioning state that is not overly oppressive.
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