POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Arab Spring, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Highly Questionable
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Growing interest by the us and european countries in promoing democracy abroad. Wave of poliical transformaion provided opportunity for the industrialized democracies to promote the spread of poliical systems. Embraced a broad array of environmental protecion and sustainability, opposiion to globalizaion, protecion of gay rights. Corrupion and ineiciency of many developing countries governments prompted internaional development agencies to rethink the assumpion that development required state intervenion. Hegel"s unsaisfactory deiniion: civil society comprises the realm of organizaions that lie between the family and the state. Civil society is a part of the enire web of social insituions. Sudan where major religious brotherhoods which people are born into form poliical paries that are automaic, though not compulsory: problem in voluntary character: relaion to ruling poliical paries ad the mass organizaions that they control. Term civil society invariably use to denote organizaions that share certain posiive civil values: eg.