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July 3, 2006

The U.S. and Egypt: Giving Up on the Liberty Doctrine

Op-ed: International Herald Tribune on July 3, 2006

Amr Hamzawy and Michael McFaul: Has President George W. Bush given up on his liberty doctrine? From Libya to Iran to Azerbaijan, the Bush administration appears to have downgraded the importance of democracy promotion in the last several months. Nowhere, however, has a new indifference to democracy been more striking than in Egypt. Read more »