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Democracy and Colonialism

Neve Gordon
Fri, 01/01/2010

For some time now I have been pondering the closely knit relationship between democracy and colonialism. Notwithstanding the widespread
conception among democracy theorists that there is a contradiction between the two, in this paper I contend that colonialism has served as a
crucial component in the historical processes through which modern democracies were created and sustained.

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