Democracy and Democracy Promotion Good/Bad Democracy Good War – 1. DEMOCRACY PREVENTS NUCLEAR WAR—IT SOLVES IMPACTS Nathan Sharansky, Minister for and Diaspora Affairs and former Soviet dissident, 2004. ’s THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY, p. 88. Now we can see why nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured. The result is that while the mechanics of democracy make democracies inherently peaceful, the mechanics of tyranny make nondemocracies inherently belligerent. Indeed, in order to avoid collapsing from within, fear societies must maintain a perpetual state of conflict. Nondemocratic societies have always been powder kegs ready to explode, but today the force of that explosion can be far more lethal than it was in the past. In an age of weapons of mass destruction and global terrorism, the dangers of ignoring the absence of democracy in any part of the world have increased
Democracy and Democracy Promotion Good/Bad Democracy Good – War 1. DEMOCRACY PREVENTS NUCLEAR WAR—IT SOLVES IMPACTS Nathan Sharansky, ’s Minister for and Diaspora Affairs and former Soviet dissident, 2004. THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY, p. 88. Now we can see why nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured. The result is that while the mechanics of democracy make democracies inherently peaceful, the mechanics of tyranny make nondemocracies inherently belligerent. Indeed, in order to avoid collapsing from within, fear societies must maintain a perpetual state of conflict. Nondemocratic societies have always been powder kegs ready to explode, but today the force of that explosion can be far more lethal than it was in the past. In an age of weapons of mass destruction and global terrorism, the dangers of ignoring the absence of democracy in any part of the world have increased
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