The implications of this movement have resulted in a global impact that crosses borders, oceans and continents, significantly affecting the social, political, and economic status of each country involved. This movement affects not only the future of those countries, but also the rest of the world due to the changing of fundamental beliefs at a national and geopolitical level. ... The fall of longtime leaders, and the peoples rising demands for a stronger voice in their own governance, have brought new opportunities for civil rights reform. ... In Libya, such a change only occurred after months...

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The word "democracy," as well as the concept it represents, can be traced back to the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The beginnings of democracy can be credited to the Greeks of the sixth century BC. The word comes from two Greek words: demos, meaning "the people," and kratein, meaning "to rule." These two words are joined together to form democracy, literally meaning, "rule by the people" (Pious). The Greek system of government was perhaps closer to a true democracy or rule by the people than any other in history. ...

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The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating everything and labeling his movement as, "Buddhist Socialism," (CIA Fact book). ... The Khmer rouge movement led by Pol Pot, also known as, "Brother Number One," (Cambodia Tribunal Monitor) accounted for an estimated 1.5-3 million deaths and was aimed at erasing all Cambodian history, prior to their rise to power. This meant that under the Khmer Rouge movement, the first year of the revolution equally meant the first year of Cambodia's new h...

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Political parties can be found in three different arenas: a label in the minds of the voters, as an organization that recruits and campaigns for candidates, and as a set of leaders who try to organize and control the legislative and executive branches of government. ... In this era religious associations increased sharply, the anti-slavery movement began, and moving closer to the civil war trade unions based on crafts emerged in significant numbers. ...

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Huntington, democracy has five different elements of criteria, firstly, in terms of elections, Huntington believes elections, open, free and far are the essence of democracy, the inescapable sine qua non (the third wave, p 10), secondly, a democratic country should chose their political leaders through democratic means and that they share their given power with other groups in society. ... When one thinks of an autocratic government now, it is hard not to associate it with the human costs of despotic rule rival to those of disease, famine and war, also immediately associating the thought wi...

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Through the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, most of these practices were diminished, and in 1962 Congress passed the 24th Amendment, which made it illegal for a state or the federal government to charge any fee for casting a ballot in a federal election. ...

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Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 DEMOCRATIC PEACE THEORY 2 3 DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS 4 3.1 HOW TO SPREAD DEMOCRACY 4 3.2 SECURITY INTERESTS IN SEEING DEMOCRATIZATION SPREAD 5 3.3 DEMOCRATIZATION PROGRAMS 6 4 REASONS FOR NOT SPREADING DEMOCRACY 8 4.1 INTRODUCTION 8 4.2 POLITICAL ASPECTS 8 4.3 ECONOMIC ASPECTS 10 4.3.1 CHINA 10 4.3.2 MIDDLE EAST 11 5 CONCLUSION 12 REFERENCE LIST 13 1 Introduction Last century, the number of democracies in the world increased significantly (Smith & Hadfield & Dunne, 2008: 53). In 1900, only fourteen countries could be described as democratic, wher...

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