By T. Flockhart
This quantity bargains a well timed and demanding examine on how norms are transferred from the foreign into the family area via strategies of socialization. It seeks to appreciate the method of switch in post-Cold warfare Europe from a divided continent right into a neighborhood with a standard id, in accordance with shared values and ideas. It additionally deals an evidence for why the method of swap has happened simply in a few nations and with extra trouble or by no means in others.
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2 Comparative studies of democratization thus offered a significant, but partial, window on the process of democratization. Democratization was understood to comprise the transformation of the political system from non-democracy towards accountable, representative and elected government, accompanied by a gradual increase in liberal freedoms. An important distinction was made between the transitional stage, the beginning of the movement towards democracy during which politics is fluid and outcomes unclear, and consolidation, when democracy becomes ‘the only game in town’ (Linz and Stepan, 1996: 5).
Of course this had been especially true during the Cold War, when support for democratization was reduced to the status of a decorative motif on an otherwise self-interested agenda. But even after 1989, when democracy, respect for human rights and the importance of the rule of law were enthusiastically reconfirmed as discursive ordering principles for the international system, it seems that Western states have consistently been ambiguous in terms of endorsing democracy within international society.
Without effective and independent states, nascent democracies find it impossible to satisfy internal demands; states work, in fact, not to shore up democracy but to impose limitations on it (Gill, 1995). A third argument focuses on the destabilizing impact of globalization on societies and communities of rapid cultural change and the subsequent loss of national identity (Robertson, 1992). In sum, a range of literature places globalization at the head of the failure of the democratic project. Nevertheless, it might be more accurate to recognize that globalization has created demands for democracy, as well as imposing greater controls over states and societies.
