Why does the United States try to spread democracy?
You can kill a person, but it will take ages to kill an Ideology.
Ever since the Cold War, the United States has been leading numerous world wide campaigns to spread democracy around the world. Many people of the target reason have hope that the U.S. will be successful, however, the truth is, they won’t be. The United States’ ideological campaign for democracy has been very forceful for the past couple of years. The campaign has left a trail of conflict and suffering. According to the UN, because of democracy campaigns like the United States’, one-tenth of the worlds Arabs live directly under foreign occupation. Because of situations like these, the purpose of the campaign comes to question. The first questions being the following: |
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Why is the United States of America spreading democracy?
Many analysts say it’s because we want to save more money. According to the Council of Foreign Relations, it is established the democracies do not go to war with one another. Foreign policy analysts advocate working with other governments on the basis of interests, irrespective of character, and suggest that this approach best preserves stability in the world. This is otherwise known as practicing diplomacy. There has long been controversy about whether democracy enhances economic development during the long term. History shows that democracy yields the most potential, however, the |
rise of China most definitely challenges this notion. However what is clear that democracies produce less of a variety of results, With democracies, there are not as many great successes, but also fewer prolonged disasters. Since the bad outcomes tend to produce more damage than the good ones, less variable outcomes would be very attractive for a democratic system, even if democracies on average did not produce greater economic growth.
The final reason for the United States’ urge to spread democracies is for all countries to have equal access to justice and to shine as important assests in a country’s economy. Democracy’s support for pluralism prevents human asset, |
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including religious and ethnic minorities, women, and migrants, from being squandered. Indeed, a shortage of economic opportunities and outlets for grievances has contributed significantly to the ongoing upheaval in the Middle East. Pluralism is also precisely what is needed to stop violent extremism from wreaking havoc on the world. In 2006, former UN secretary General Kofi Annan stated that “democracy is a universal right that does not belong to any country or region, and that participatory governance, based on the will of the people, is the best path to freedom, growth and development.”
Can democracy stop terrorism?
This is the true question that still remains. Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the United States has tried to promote democracy in areas with high terror. These are areas like Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and even Syria. According to Foreign Affairs magazine, although what is known about terrorism is admittedly incomplete, the data available do not show a strong relationship between democracy and an absence of or a reduction in terrorism.
Terrorism appears to stem from factors much more specific than regime type. Factors like poverty and the lack of education accessibility are the reason young boys train to become suicide bombers and executors. Instead of funneling thousands to millions of dollars every year to try to get countries to change their way of governing to become more democratic to satisfy the United States’ interests, the United States should be taking steps to provide adequate education and gainful employment without discriminating against them in any field. Even then, analysts from the New York Times say that there should be a commitment to the promotion of a new global order, based on on the exercise of the right of ethnic groups and nations to self-determination in politically autonomous entities, and to the true version of democracy: people’s rule.
Can democracy stop terrorism?
This is the true question that still remains. Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the United States has tried to promote democracy in areas with high terror. These are areas like Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and even Syria. According to Foreign Affairs magazine, although what is known about terrorism is admittedly incomplete, the data available do not show a strong relationship between democracy and an absence of or a reduction in terrorism.
Terrorism appears to stem from factors much more specific than regime type. Factors like poverty and the lack of education accessibility are the reason young boys train to become suicide bombers and executors. Instead of funneling thousands to millions of dollars every year to try to get countries to change their way of governing to become more democratic to satisfy the United States’ interests, the United States should be taking steps to provide adequate education and gainful employment without discriminating against them in any field. Even then, analysts from the New York Times say that there should be a commitment to the promotion of a new global order, based on on the exercise of the right of ethnic groups and nations to self-determination in politically autonomous entities, and to the true version of democracy: people’s rule.
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Providing people with the power is what a true democracy is about, not replacing a bad leader of a country with a leader that will promise to provide cheap oil to the country putting he/she into power. Democracy does not come by itself and it cannot be imported from abroad, let alone be implanted by military means. It has to grow from within countries by gradually institutionalizing and constructing political processes and spreading the universal values that are key to a strong democracy.
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