IMPOSED/ADMINISTERED DEMOCRATIZATION

Externally Imposed/Administered Democratization and International Peace & Stability

Externally Imposed/Administered Democratization and International Peace & Stability

Introduction

The political buzzword of the late 20th Century is called democratization. Long before the debate about its democratization economic recovery from the collapse of communist systems learned to Western intellectuals were absolutely disagree on the Future prospects of democracy. Also in Transformation research, its in their emphases very classic Object of cognition follows dive, according to liberalization, Transition and Consolidation first indications of a perhaps questionable late so-called third wave of democracy: Larry Diamond is open to question discussed after a new reverse wave, Guillermo O'Donnell on the example Russia's problems delegative democracies and a reflection on defective Democracies has long been used.

The last three decades have been marked by an unprecedented spread of democratic institutions. During the so-called third wave democratization in more than 60 countries spread fairly evenly on 6 continents, autocratic regimes of various kinds have been replaced by democracies. According to recent data from the World Values ??Survey , now also in contexts traditionally autocratic as some of the States in which large majorities professing Islam or Confucianism, democracy has become the preferred form of government, the model to aspire to.

Discussion & Analyses

The intervention of the coalition of the willing in Iraq and institutional change that resulted, as well as (to a lesser extent) the Afghan experience, teach us that the removal of an authoritarian regime, and the introduction of free elections are not however, sufficient to ensure the emergence of a stable and functioning democracy (Sagiv, Arieli, Goldenberg & Goldschmidt, 2010). This does not necessarily mean that Islam or Arab culture are inherently unsuitable for the introduction of democratic institutions. On the contrary, the hypothesis developed in this article suggests that decisions relating to an intervention by the international community (economic, political or military that is) should be subject to an assessment of the socio-economic characteristics of the country concerned. Policies designed to force a regime change should be undertaken only in the context of its equitable distribution of resources, and where the economy is not only based on natural resources and oil.

The case of Iraq fits perfectly within this framework: the enormous inequality in the distribution of wealth and the fact that this inequality is based on the control of natural resources easily espropriabili makes functioning democratic institutions potentially expensive for those elite that has benefited exclusive use of resources during the dictatorship (the Sunnis). While the recent experiences of the third wave seems to disavow the neocon ideology that has marked the foreign policy of the U.S. in recent years, on the other hand we also caution those same ideological positions that suggest the general inability to facilitate (through outside intervention) the establishment of stable democratic institutions and effective. Give up the presumption of being able to export democracy irrespective of the characteristics of the country in question, in fact, does not mean that, in certain contexts, external interventions (even of a military nature) can not be effective (Hemmer, ...