Confronting President Bush's Vision of Global Democracy: Strategies of Resistance in Authoritarian Countries.

This paper explores how authoritarian governments are successfully resisting President George W. Bush's democracy promotion. Six strategies of resistance are identified and examined in this research. In addition to examining anti-democracy promotion activities, it explores a contradiction within Bush's democratization policy that actually impedes the emergence of global democracy. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]