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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
South Asia, it is argued, has also been touched by democracy's fourth wave. The pro-democracy movements in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh are a case in point. One may add the recent experiment with democratization in Bhutan to this list; but the experiment is not known to have been catalyzed by any popular movement for democracy in the Himalayan Kingdom. By contrast, the liquidation of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the military solution to the insurgency problem in Sri Lanka seem to have reinforced the stronghold of family and ethnic Sinhala rule in the tiny island nation. While these experiences have been part of the present history of South Asia, it is difficult to say whether these have really been the demonstration effect of the Arab Spring sweeping across countries of West Asia and parts of Africa.
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