POL201Y1 Lecture : Huntington lecture
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Jan 24, 2011 pol201 democratic transitions huntington lecture caused by modernization democracy arose from revolution: first wave, u. s. , britain and france, second wave, after ww2. War in angola 1974 as a result of the coup in portugal. Angols (its colony) then the rebels started fighting against one another. The group who won was socialist who was getting help from ussr and cuba: south africa: angola is a security threat cause the government was communist so they joined the war. Then the u. s. gets involved on their side and got involved in the war: the local became a site for global war (cuba sent thousands of people to angola, the. U. s. sent cia in angola) www. notesolution. com: but at the end of the cold war in 1989 the conflict ended and no one cared about the. Angola all of the proxy wars and its effects (of local wars) prevented them from transitioning to democracy.