On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > In other words, our policy and methodology to create democracies from > dictatorships has worked broadly in western countries but has yet to succeed > in Middle Eastern ones.
Just to be pedantic, Japan was a hereditary Monarchy, not a dictatorship. As for Iraq, I think it would be a very far stretch of the imagination to claim that Democracy has taken hold there. Could it in the future? Perhaps. I'm not overly bullish on the prospects for democracy in Arab world in the next couple decades because I think that oil represents too big a economic factor in most of the countries and oil is likely to be a very volatile commodity. Establishing democratic institutions and democratic habits is difficult and I'm not sure how well it will work in volatile economic conditions. Cheers, Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334938 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
