DURING the Cold War, ideologically motivated groups in the West categorised countries around the world according to the degree of freedom they were seen to enjoy.
“Freedom” usually meant conforming to Western notions of anti-communism, democracy, market orientation – and later – free trade, economic liberalisation and access for Western market penetration.
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