MMW 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Backsliding, Pink Tide, Xenophobia
9 Jun 2018
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Lecture 27 – The Post-Cold War World Order
❖ Itroductio: Evaluatig the “truggle over Deocracy sice the ed of
the Cold War
• Demise of the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc
• Initial optimism, past-1989
• Ongoing challenges
• Today: democracy as unfinished or endangered project?
❖ The Ed of History or the Death of Couis
• Failed Reform Efforts. 1950s-80s
o 1950s Khruchev and destalinization
o Prague Spring (1968) and Polish Solidarity Movement (1981)
o Culmination: Gorbachev and Perestroika and Glasnot
• Why did Reform fail?
o Communism and Democracy as incompatible
▪ The West would argue that as soon as democracy enters the
scene, communism has no hope of succeeding
o Reforms came too late?
o Evidence for both positions
▪ There is a tension between Gorbachev wanting to direct this
process, but on the other hand, once you open up this
deoratizatio ou a’t guaratee that eeroe ill at to
go the same direction – once you open pluralism you’re left
dealing with that sort of problem
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• End of the Soviet Union and Communist bloc, 1989-1991
❖ The Struggle over Democracy after 1989
• The Ed of Histor?
o Frais Fukuaa artile, Ed of Histor = Deora as ol gae i
to
▪ End of the struggle over which system was best
o Optimism that we were going to quickly move to a democratic world
order
• Eidee: the Third Wae of Deoratizatio
o 1970s: Southern Europe
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