POL201Y1 : Was Democracy Just A Moment?

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7 Feb 2011
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Democracy may not be the system that will best serve the world. Democracy is a form of determinism driven by our own ethnocentricity. Russia which inherited neither from the soviet regime, remains violent, unstable, and poor despite 99% literacy rate: america cannot establish democracy over the world. The new authoritarianism: as elected governments in turkey become increasingly circumscribed by the army, a quieter military paternalism is likely to evolve in place of periodic coups. World government : authoritarian or hybrid regimes, no matter how illiberal, will still be treated as legitimate if they can provide security for their subjects and spark economic growth. www. notesolution. com. Was democracy just a moment: of the world"s hundreds largest economies, 51 are not countries but corporations, multinational corporations like abb have created a diverse multicultural environment in which individuals rise or fall completely on their own merits.