Challenges Facing the United States When Imposing Democracy On Developing Nations

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The United States global objectives are democracy, prosperity stability, security, and peace and ultimately this leads to encouraging and supporting democratic nations and those who are attempting to achieve democracy. Recently transitioned democratic governments such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated the benefits of democracy as well as showing that these benefits are lost when democracy is imposed rather than chosen and achieved (Harries, 2003). The United States ultimately becomes involved in strategies to improve developing nations and the effects of this involvement must be determined. The effects of democracy on countries that have recently transitioned to democracy will also be examined in order to determine whether democracy has a positive or negative impact on society. By observing and analyzing these aspects, it is easy to see that the United States should not impose democracy on developing nations but most certainly should encourage and support democracy in those nations that choose to transition to democracy.

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Challenges Facing the United States When Imposing Democracy On Developing Nations

THE MEANING OF DEMOCRACY

It is important to understand the meaning of democracy to the U.S as well as the meaning of developing nations, and what the reasons are for the U.S to impose democracy in developing nations such as Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. In 1974, there where 41 democratic countries in the world; as of the end of the century there were 121. There is safety in numbers, as well as an attraction to "what works" (Harries, 2003). Democracy ...

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