Is the Bush Record on Democracy Promotion All Bad ? Posted by Michael Cohen

Below, Ilan makes a pretty pungent attack against the Bush Administration's approach to democracy promotion - and for the most part I think he is correct. The Bushies did a lot wrong on democracy promotion not the least of which was their conflation of the use of force to "democratization" and not matching their rhetoric with action. (Although it should be fairly noted that they are not the first Administration to engage in such behavior).

But having said that I don't think it's a completely empty glass here. There were some initiatives launched during the Bush years, that are worthy of praise. For example, the Millennium Challenge program is, to my mind, one of the most progressive democracy promotion initiatives put forward by any president since the creation of the NED in 1983. (Even though MCC is not nominally a democracy promotion program). It wisely connects development to promotion of good governance and civil society and it deserves more not less support from Congress and the new Administration.

In fact, the MCC criteria, namely of conditioning development assistance on good governance and democratic reform should be the model for all U.S. development assistance. In general, the Bush Administration did a good job of identifying civil society promotion as a key element of our democratization agenda (the Middle East Partnership Initiative MEPI is a good example) and it's a model that needs to be followed through on.

So while I am more than sympathetic with the critique of the Bush Administration's Freedom Agenda it would incredibly unwise to throw the baby out with the bath water. Simply because MCC or MEPI were created during the Bush years doesn't mean they don't have relevance going forward.

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