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Britannia chastising Egypt in a 1924 Punch cartoon over the caption, “I gave you liberty. See to it that the things done by you in her name do not make me repent my gift.” See Jack Snyder on "Empire: A Paradoxical Tool for Democratization": “Democratization by imperial fiat sounds paradoxical, and it is. The imperial power insists not only that the society it rules should become democratic, but also that the outcome of democratization should be one that it approves.” Cartoon reproduced with permission of Punch Ltd.