POL101Y1 Lecture 2: pol101_2016_lecture_2
7 Feb 2017
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Communism"s collapse does not imply that democracy must win in the long-term: No guarantee that subtler tyrannies do not await us . I submit that the democracy we are encouraging in many poor parts of the world is an integral part of a transformation toward new forms of authoritarianism future regimes are likely to be more oligarchic than democratic. A pessimistic, tragic, but arguably prudent perspective. Democracy is value neutral (compare sen): hitler and mussolini each came to power through democracy. Democracies do not always make societies more civil but they do always mercilessly expose the health of the societies in which they operate. Khartoum the terrorism capital of the arab world, replacing beirut ( if a society is not in reasonable health, democracy can be not only risky but disastrous ). Other examples he offers are tunisia, algeria, kurdistan, afghanistan, bosnia, sierra leone, congo,
