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Stability Democracy Debate (Preliminary Considerations (Electoral…
Stability Democracy Debate
Democracy Promotion
Yes
Its a Normative good
Good form of government
Instrumental
Spreading fosters
Peace
Less Interstate war
Less Tension
Economic Development
Can trust government
Support for America
Support for America
Practical
It can be done
No
Not necessarily better than autocracy
Its actually trash
Lead to more war
Anti-americanism
Endanger stablility
Question of oil, development
Process can make things worse
Preliminary Considerations
Who, what, how promoted
Different types of democracies & non-democracies may call for different strategies
Idea of a continuum (hybrid model of government)
Electoral democracy
Often gut response of international community
Not always effective in long term
Grand Strategy
Economic Base:
Use Sanctions to collapse regime
Can hurt ordinary citizens
Alternative
Prerequisite approach to enable trading
State Based
"Hey join the club mane"
Soft Diplomacy
Join EU
Hard Power
Military Intervention
Design & Quality of institutions linked to state
Elections
Rule of law
Constitutions
Anomaly: Singapore
Civil Society Based
Build up civil society
NGOs
Free Press
Etc.
Can damage legitimacy
Create Dependency