GOVT1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: One-Party State, Communist Party Of China, South African Communist Party
13 Aug 2018
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Post world war two wave followed by second reverse wave". Few scholars optimistic about prospects for democracy in developing world: modernisation and cultural approach. But then third wave" in the mid 1970s (huntington): southern europe, latin america, eastern europe, parts of asia, parts of africa and former soviet union. Number of democracies nearly triples between 1970s and the year 2000. Huntington came up with a number of factors to explain this: legitimacy problems, economic growth (or lack of), change in international environment. Catholic wave" (such as spain, portugal and latin american countries). Communism collapses in eastern europe in 1989 and in the ussr in 1991. Ussr divides into 15 seperate countries (russia, ukraine etc. From roosevelt described the dictator of nicaragua as our son of a bitch" to demonstrate their political thinking as prioritising capitalism versus communism as a struggle. Jimmy carter put human rights at the centre of u. s. foreign policy withdrawing support for dictators world wide.
