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The Transfer of Arms and the Diffusion of Democracy: Do Arms Promote or Undermine the “Third Wave”?

ISSN: 0362-3319.
Journal from gdlhub / 2017-08-14 12:04:24
Oleh : SHANNON LINDSEY BLANTON, Southern Illinois University
Dibuat : 2012-06-19, dengan 1 file

Keyword : The Transfer of Arms and the Diffusion of Democracy: Do Arms Promote or Undermine the “Third Wave”?
Subjek : The Transfer of Arms and the Diffusion of Democracy: Do Arms Promote or Undermine the “Third Wave”?
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Over the years, an impressive number of countries throughout the world have made the


transition to democratic rule. According to the Freedom House survey, in 1991 “there


were 91 democracies and another 35 countries in some form of democratic transition—a


staggering 126 out of 183 nations evaluated—compared to 44 democracies in 1972 and


56 in 1980” (McColm, 1992, p. 47). Indeed, democracy has seemed to be spreading as it


has touched virtually every region of the world. For instance, western Europe became


entirely democratic in the mid-1970s with the redemocratization of Greece, Spain, and


Portugal. “Since 1979, the politics of Latin American have been transformed by the


longest and deepest wave of democratization in the region’s history” (Remmer, 1990, p.


315). And in 1989, most of the countries in eastern Europe underwent a rapid transformation


to democracy as the Cold War came to an end. An Asian trend toward democracy


emerged in the 1980s in South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, Mongolia, Nepal, Burma,


and Bangladesh. In Africa, the leaders of Coˆte d’Ivoire, Benin, Gabon, Zambia, Tanzania,


and Zaire had all, by 1990, made concessions to democracy (Ray, 1995). Even in the


Middle East, which may arguably be the region most resistant to the push toward


democracy, talk has taken place about devising models of Islamic democracy (Huntington,


1991). Thus, both regionally and globally, there has been a diffusion of governmental


transitions toward democracy (Starr, 1991, 1995).

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