Author(s): Thomas Carothers
In: Foreign Affairs, Vol 85, No 2 (March/April), 2006, pp. 55-68
Carothers has written widely on US democratic assistance - see for example Thomas Carothers, Revitalizing Democracy Assistance: The Challenge of USAID, Washington DC, Carnegie Endowment, 2009 , pp. 66 - and tends to the view that such aid is positive but necessarily limited in its effects.