POLS 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Liberal Democracy, Military Occupation, Counter-Insurgency
3 Dec 2017
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Week 10: the problem of state building: promoting democracy or. Domestic constraints: internal class structure, state power. Geopolitical constraints: the end of the cold war allows donors to condition democratic governance through the use of aid, prior to this, they would be less inclined to withhold or withdraw aid because of strategic interests. To what end: humanitarianism < > militarization. Pathways to democracy: liberal democratic transition. Established liberal democracies arose out of particular historical bargains stuck between ruling classes in western europe and north america and their taxpayers and citizens over the course of more than 2 centuries: transition from authoritarian rule. Debt crisis and the end of the cold war: weakened traditional military bureaucratic elites. Large social movements: de-legitimized the authority to rule. Externally imposed: conditionally, economic sanctions, negotiated settlements used to force elections and respect for basic human rights, little or no structural transformation. Different forms of external imposition: american aid to japan, korea and taiwan.
