Kagame's Rwanda: Can an Authoritarian Development Model Be Squared with Democracy and Human Rights
![handle is hein.journals/porril14 and id is 259 raw text is: ANDREW FRIEDMAN*
Kagame's Rwanda: Can an Authoritarian
Development Model Be Squared with
Democracy and Human Rights?
Introduction ...................................................................................... 253
I. The Rwandan Economy and Vision 2020 ............................. 257
A . V ision 2020 .................................................................... 258
B. Economic Implementation ............................................. 262
II. Connection Between Authoritarianism and the Economy ..... 266
III. Could the Model Be Successful in a Democracy? ................ 269
C onclusion ........................................................................................ 276
INTRODUCTION
It has been written, somewhat hyperbolically, that we are at the
end of history.1 In this worldview, the liberal democratic order has so
taken hold throughout the world that only forms of government based
on popular sovereignty and representation will emerge and thrive
from now until the end of the state system. The current wave of
democratization that has taken root throughout the Middle East and
North Africa seems an affirmation of this statement. Even while many
populations do not yet find themselves under the flags of freedom and
individual rights, the great majorities in many authoritarian and
despotic societies long for such liberties.
* Director of the International Human Rights Law and Good Governance Team at Just
Consulting. He holds an LLM in International Law and Development from the University
of Nottingham and a J.D. from the University of Illinois where he graduated cum laude.
He would like to extend a special thanks to Samantha Benton and Nicole Hermann for
their hard work editing the Article and Shehn Datta for her hard work on the TWAIL
conference.
1 JOSEPH J. ELLIS, FOUNDING BROTHERS: THE REvOLUTIONARY GENERATION 4
(2000).
2 Id.
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