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Article: Democracy and the new world order: dilemmas and conflicts.
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- Social Justice
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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The prospects for democracy at the close of the 20th century are perilous. In an increasingly unified world system, it is no longer possible to write about the prospects for democracy except on a world scale. It cannot be a precious entity reserved for the rich First World ghetto of Western Europe and North America. Nor is it useful to write about "Eurocentric" or "Eurospecific" forms of democracy. It is reasonably clear by now that those who have required those qualifiers, or others such as "socialist" democracy, "Islamic" democracy, or democracy suited for the Third World South, usually mean no democracy whatsoever.
Those who insist on differentiating between ...