POL101Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: World War I, Arab Spring, Authoritarianism
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Thesis: long-standing democracies canada, the united states, and britain do not fall easily. Indeed, it is often those newer democratic regimes that break down by virtue of the fact that history is haunting. Put simply, the problems that result in the respective regimes" collapses are inherited as explained in the promise of the arab. Spring. newer democratic regimes thus break down because their antidemocratic legacies are seldom properly addressed. Example one: french revolution: the con ict, chaos, and violence that followed the. As such, they had very little way of resolving their problems diplomatically: once democracy was awarded to the french people, violence ensued. Thousands were guillotined, and a reign of terror befell the country paving the way for. Napoleon"s dictatorship: the revolutionaries failed to mend proper ties with the people that had been broken during france"s monarchical rule, and they failed to reconstruct the broken institutions.
