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Can Democracy Survive Globalization? by iliyande(m): 11:25am On Sep 28, 2015
Democratic peace theory holds that democracies do not wage war against one another. Two false consequences are drawn from this theory. The first is that the spread of democracy to every state would in itself be sufficient to achieve universal peace. The second is that spreading democracy should be the first foreign policy priority of all democratic states.

The plan to bring globalisation under democratic control is meeting with formidable opposition especially the middle east and Africa.

A more recent lesson can be learned from the setbacks in the US doctrine of bringing democracy to the Middle-East and from the experience of failed states such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria, Libya and the Palestinian territories. Efforts to establish democracy in this region are frustrated by the climate of insecurity, violence and corruption prevailing in those countries, which worsened after the US military interventions.

According to Benjamin R. Barber, Democracy is far less fragile than we sometimes imagine. Although hard to establish, it is remarkably robust and is corrupted only by dint of persistent effort. Yet, as Rousseau wrote of freedom, once lost, democracy is nearly impossible to regain. Today, the forces of democracy face a new source of corruption all the more sinister because it appears so innocuous, often even identifying itself with the liberty it undermines. Having survived the nation-state and in time subordinated it to its own liberal purposes, can democracy now survive globalization? Only if democracy is globalized.

At present, the encompassing practices of globalization have created an ironic and radical asymmetry: we have managed to globalize markets in goods, labour, currencies and information without globalizing the civic and democratic institutions that have historically comprised the free market's indispensable context. Put simply, we have removed capitalism from the institutional ‘box’ that has (quite literally) domesticated it and given its sometimes harsh practices a human face.

The question now is, can you predict democracy in the next 100 years?
Re: Can Democracy Survive Globalization? by DaBullIT(m): 11:51am On Sep 28, 2015
Maybe
Re: Can Democracy Survive Globalization? by JustCalMeDBoss(m): 11:54am On Sep 28, 2015
To ans ur question what would democracy look like in the next 100yrs I see it surviving but been stripped of the liberty component.

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