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Published date01 March 2012
DOI10.1177/002070201206700117
AuthorChristopher Sands
Date01 March 2012
Subject MatterDebates
| International Journal | Winter 2011-12 | 251 |
DEBATES
Christopher Sands
Response
The kind words from Andrew Gibson regarding the summer 2010 issue
of International Journal are greatly appreciated. Having spent some time
during my career with practitioners in the f‌ield of democracy assistance, I
was impressed by the work that they did and wanted to bring their practical
insights to the attention of Canadian and international readers.
It is similarly gratifying when a reader writes to praise your work, and
then offers as a shortcoming the criticism that what was included was
“invaluable” but more would have been better still. However, in response, I
would caution that more is not always better.
In December 2003, while working as the director for strategic planning
and evaluation for the US International Republican Institute, I travelled
to Baghdad as part of a professional assessment team to determine what
types of democracy assistance were most needed and most feasible after
Saddam Hussein and his regime had been removed from power by US and
allied forces. We had hoped to f‌ly to Baghdad, but all of the f‌lights were full.
Instead, we f‌lew to Amman, Jordan, and hired drivers who took us to the
Iraqi border, where we had arranged for a second set of drivers to take us the
rest of the way.
Christopher Sands is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a professorial
lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International
Studies. He served as guest editor of the summer 2010 issue of International
Journal.

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