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85 Foreign Aff. 55 (2006)
The Backlash against Democracy Promotion

handle is hein.journals/fora85 and id is 241 raw text is: The Backlash Against Democracy Promotion Thomas Carotbers THE AUTOCRATS PUSH BACK IN JANUARY, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a controversial new bill imposing heightened controls on local and foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOS) operating in the country. The new legislation, which requires all NGOS in Russia to inform the government in advance about every project they intend to conduct, is another marker of the country's dispiriting slide back toward authoritarianism. The law is also a sign of an equally disturbing and much broader trend. After two decades of the steady expansion of democracy-building programs around the world, a growing number of governments are starting to crack down on such activities within their borders. Strongmen-some of them elected officials-have begun to publicly denounce Western democracy assistance as illegitimate political meddling. They have started expelling or harassing Western NGOS and prohibiting local groups from taking foreign funds-or have started punishing them for doing so. This growing backlash has yet to coalesce into a formal or organized movement. But its proponents are clearly learning from and feeding off of one another. The recent color revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan and the widespread suspicion that U.S. groups such as the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International Republican Institute THOMAS CAROTH ERS is Director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His most recent book is Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad- In Search of Knowledge. 155]

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