Modern-Day Democracy

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This paper briefly examines the four democratic waves that have profoundly re-ordered the global community since the middle nineteenth century. The paper relies in part upon the work of Stanley P. Huntington as well as the work of several other scholars. Among numerous other things, the paper looks closely at the factors that precipitate regime change in societies and succinctly reviews the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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"As observers pause to reflect on the twentieth century, it seems certain that more and more of them will arrive at the conviction that the twentieth century was the century in which democracy finally won a resounding victory over authoritarianism. With that in mind, this paper will examine the four great democratic "waves" - the last of these still being a work-in-progress - that, beginning in the nineteenth century, ultimately transformed the twentieth. To do this, it is necessary to first look at the work of famed American political scientist, Stanley P. Huntington, for his basic premises shed invaluable light upon the factors that make socio-political revolution possible."

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