The Failure of Democratic Nation Building Ideology Meets Evolution

   

In this book Somit and Peterson argue that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures and that democracy requires very special enabling conditions before it can be supported by a state conditions that require decades to evolve As a result attempts to export democracy through nation building to states without these enabling conditions are doomed to failure

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Hiram Caton | 2006/05/15
Iraq s a mess A very costly mess over 200 billion and rising The loss of life and injury haven t been convincingly estimated It depends on whether the reports of harm done by depleted uranium particles are credible The DOD dismisses the reports but it takes the same view of the Gulf War Syndrome and the Nam Agent Orange sickness If the reports are true the moral burden is heavy Then there s opposition to the war by EU nations and in domestic U S politics Disagreement s the name of the political...

Reader 1 | 2005/12/25
The rapidly rising costs of America s efforts to produce democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan make it imperative for citizens to re examine the American policy of trying to bring democracy to other parts of the world This book argues that with some exceptions like Germany and Japan after World War II that policy of democratic nation building has been unsuccessful in the past it is unsuccessful today and is likely to be equally unproductive in the foreseeable future Democracy requires very special...

Herbert Gintis | 2005/12/14
According to the authors political democracy is rare and declining so the United States would do better to deploy its resources in supporting democracy at home rather than attempting to support the extension of democracy to other countries The reason they give for their position is that our species being a member of the small class of social primates is hierarchical and authoritarian by nature so only the most fortuitous confluence of circumstances is favorable to political democracy In essence...