Re: Who is backing the East Timorese and why?

Robinson's book is Promoting Polyarchy.

Andy

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Richard N Hutchinson wrote:

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>First, it seems clear that the U.S. is basically pro-status quo in
>Indonesia.  Certainly it does not want to replace or destabilize the
>military, any more than it did in Haiti.
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>Whatever minor changes may be favored I think Robinson covered in his
>book. (I forget the name, something like Promoting Democracy.)  A client
>state will be more stable if it isn't run by a narrow kleptocracy.
>A broader ruling elite is preferable.  
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>Wickham-Crowley's book on Latin America supports this as well, showing
>that the only successful revolutions recently have been against Batista in
>Cuba and Somoza in Nicaragua, both of whom failed to incorporate elites
>sufficiently in their regimes and thus provoked broad opposition.
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>Richard Hutchinson
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