Investors foresaw widespread repercussions throughout the international financial system in the wake of a collapse in Greece. ... Although the austerity measures have already passed, analysts fear that Greece will not be able to enforce the program because of the major public opposition. ... However, analysts also widely agree that even with the international monetary assistance Greece might never be able to pay off loans that greatly outweigh the country's economic output. ...

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Nonetheless, this does not mean that democratic countries are more peaceful than other political systems, which lead to the second characteristic of the democratic peace theory (Sa-rensen, 1993: 93). ... This section showed that democratic countries are not be more peaceful than other political systems, but however empirical researches have demonstrated that war between democracies is seldom if ever. If consequently liberal countries have a security interest in seeing democratization spread to authoritarian countries will be discussed in the following section. 3 Democratization Process 3.1 Ho...

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This system does not always work the way it should, but the government finds it to be more plausible and fair than any other option. ... Political participation has decreased in the last decade and analysts expect even more of a decline in the decade to come. ...

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This system does not always work the way it should, but the government finds it to be more plausible and fair than any other option. ... Political participation has decreased in the last decade and analysts expect even more of a decline in the decade to come. ...

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For instance, Aids harrows far into the middle-class and aggressive minorities are craving their conception of the world in educational system, where Japanese electronics and Japanese cars triumphs and the saving banks are going bankrupt, where the war of the Gulf discloses an evident cynicism. ... Francis Fukuyama, US social analyst and political commentator says "Most scholars in both the East and West now accept that consumer oriented democracies tend to do a much better job of satisfying the basic human needs and the material wants of their people than any of the leading systemic alternati...

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Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. ... Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social system just one year before local elections, which in turn would lead to the country's accession to the European Union on January 1, 2007? ... Important domestic decisions such as the urgent reform of the dead-beat health...

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