Exporting Democracy

Sophia Z Kovachevich

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The world is in ferment. The situation of today’s world is at its worst. There is trouble in every part of the world. We were supposed to have peace and prosperity at the end of the Great Wars. And for a few decades we did. The Cold War kept peace of sorts and no major wars were fought. But it all changed with the collapse of the USSR. We lost the balance of power and only USA dominated. At the moment there are wars all over the world on every continent – it is the super-powers attacking small nations. The excuses are taking democracy to those countries by force through war or war on terror. We are terrorising small nations in the name of ending terror by bringing not only terror, but also death, destruction and annihilation in our wake.
This book sets out to comprehensively look at the reasons behind the present condition of the world today. It looks to uncover if there is any real democracy in the world today and the types of democracy available to us. Not everything is suited to everyone. We certainly do not want totalitarian rule in the name of democracy. But that is the way we are going. It is time to stop. Take stock and decide – do we want a better world or do we want to destroy this world?
Perhaps we are the final throes of our civilisation and don’t even realise it!

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• Political Science

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• Publié par: Xlibris AU
• Date de parution: 05 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669887881
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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EXPORTING DEMOCRACY
 
Death or Slavery
 
 

 
 
SOPHIA Z KOVACHEVICH
 
Copyright © 2022 by Sophia Z KOVACHEVICH.
 
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CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword to Exporting Democracy
Part I
Democracy and Imperialism
Democracies
Western Imperialism: an introduction
Western Imperialism in Africa
Western Imperialism in Asia
Western Europe & Russian intrusion in China
Japanese Imperialism and expansionism
US Imperialism in China
Westernisation & its Aftermath
Part II
Revolutions
Introduction to the American War of Independence
American Revolution or the War of Independence 1775
The French Revolution 1789
Major Effects of the French Revolution
American Civil War 1861-1865
Causes for the Civil War
End of the Civil War
The Revolutions of 1830 – Europe
The Revolutions of 1848
Russian Revolution 1917
Causes of the Russian Revolution
Imperial Russia
Who financed the Bolshevik Revolution?
Russian Communism and the world
Chinese Revolution 1927-1949
Part III
World Wars
World War I
Causes of World War I
Aftermath of World War I: Political, social and economic
Chemicals used in World War I
Right Wing Parties- an introduction
Right Wing Parties and the world today
World War II
Causes of World War II
Germany and USA
Companies that aided Nazis during WWII
German Allies
Axis preparations for World War II
Course of World War II
Some of the main arenas of war
End of World War II
The Holocaust
After the War
Death toll in World War II
Aftermath of WW II
Political Aftermath
Social Aftermath
Economic Aftermath
Post WW II, Decolonisation
Part IV
Colonisation
New Imperialism
Colonialism and Colonisation
Cradles of Civilisation
Introduction
Mesopotamia
The Chinese Empire
The Indus Valley Civilisation
Egyptian Civilisation
Libyan Civilisation and Western interference in Libya
Africa and Colonisation
Scramble for Africa
Boer Wars
Western interference in Egypt from the 19th century
Political Murders
Asia and Colonisation
Middle-East and European Powers
Terrorism
Islamic Socialism
Part V
Modern 20th-21st century Democracies
Causes for the failure of democracy
The Exporting of Democracy
Some Case Studies of destruction for Democracy
South East Asia
Vietnam
Korea
Cuba
Iraq
Syria
Lebanon
Palestine
Iran
Afghanistan (2001-2021)
Central America
Nicaragua
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Some other Latin American countries to receive US kindness
Summing UP
The USSR
Break-up of the USSR
Break-up and Bombing of The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY)
Reasons for dismembering Yugoslavia (1991-2001)
Part VI
Exporting Modern Day Democracy
Early Interventions 19th and early 20th century
US Interventions/interference 2000-2021
Terrorism: War on Terror & the Arab Spring
 
Conclusion to Exporting Democracy
Bibliography
 
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
Maximilien Robespierre
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.
Maximilien Robespierre
DEDICATION
T HIS BOOK IS dedicated to all those nations, races, cultures and peoples who have been victims with no way to seek redress against the politics and greed of powerful nations. It is for the suffering humanity of the world. We all have great dreams but most are shattered due to man’s greed and desire for control over others. The more we progress the more we regress. But the good thing is that the worst like the best passes. This too, will pass.
May all the peoples of the world be able to live in peace and harmony one day perhaps in an unattainable Utopia. One must have hope.
May future generations see a better, more humane world than ours today
The book is also dedicated to my husband firstly for his patience and understanding and to my family for their love and understanding even when they disagree.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
T HIS IS TO say thank you to modern technology that has enabled me to access a lot of documents in a short time, order books on line and most important of all introduced me to these writers, philosophers, researchers, journalists, professors, humanitarians who have made it their business to open our eyes to the injustices of the powerful and to keep us informed of behind-the-scene underhand manipulations of the few. They have expounded their ideas for the world to access, read mull over and understand. Ideas in themselves are good or bad as we make them.
Without modern technology, my task would have been so much more laborious.
It is also to thank those both dead and alive for their courage and determination to seek for justice against all odds.
This book has tried to put before you truthfully what I have gleaned in my research. I hope you accept it in the spirit in which I offer it to you – without prejudice. Any oversight or misunderstanding is solely on my shoulders.
FOREWORD TO EXPORTING DEMOCRACY
Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains
Jean –Jacques Rousseau— The Social Contract
T HESE ARE THE dramatic and oh so true opening words of the great French philosopher Rousseau, written so long ago that has influenced so many through the decades and still continues to do so.
We are the lucky ones. We are born free. I grew up in a cushioned atmosphere with all amenities available to us. Finances were never an issue. But the majority in the world were not so lucky. As I grew up I thought more and more about the plight of the poor, the dispossessed, the unfree. Finally, after intense studying, travelling and immersing myself in various fields like political sciences, history, literature, world religions, world affairs etc., I decided to see if I could contribute even an iota towards a better world where conditions for the majority might improve. One thing I learned is that interference – political, moral, social, economic, relational or in any other form, in another nation’s or person’s business is a sure recipe for disaster. It was so in ancient times and it is more so now as the world is shrinking and there are less and less places of safety. It is certainly true about democracy . If you interfere in a country’s democratic right to choose freely then where is their freedom of choice–the democratic rights of its people?
Our generation grew up in what is regarded as democracy. During the time of the Cold War there was relative peace as no great wars were fought but all the while smaller, weaker countries were losing their free will, their livelihood, their lives, their religion, their traditions and their total freedom in the name of democracy wielded by powerful countries and Corporations. The abuse of man by man has gained impetus in the name of brining democracy to them and freeing them from their own culture, religious practices, history… . This was and still is wrong and not at all in keeping with the ideals of democracy. I came to the conclusion that democracy was a Utopian concept. It did not exist in Greece the home of democracy nor in Rome nor anywhere else. It did not and does not exist. In our greed for wealth and power we use whichever tool is best suited to attain those goals. Democracy seems to fit the bill. So our war paraphernalia, our propaganda machines, our covert services, our intelligentsia are all employed to further increase our power and wealth at the expense and freedom of other nations.
We choose countries that are rich in oil, gold, diamonds, eme