Fukuyama states that between 1970 and 2010, the amount of democracies in the world began to grow from thirty-five to almost one hundred twenty and in this, Fukuyama refers to
Samuel Huntington’s term of the Third Wave of democratization. Huntington declares that the first wave of democratization began in the 1820s and continued until the end of the nineteenth century. The second wave began with the democratic change in Spain and Portugal in the early
1970s and continued through the end of the military domination in Greece and Turkey. It has been argued that the third wave occurred in the 2000s and that the wave is in recession. Ultimately, Fukuyama states that democracy has spread due to democracy taking a hold on an underlying idea of power of…show more content… However, under the correct circumstances, the peasantry could radicalize and join forces with the working class as supporters of revolution.
3) What are some similarities between the Arab world in its struggle to democratize and Europe over a century ago? (Chapter 29)
Fukuyama declares that many observers criticize the chaos of the Arab Spring, however
Fukuyama states that Europe also experienced a chaotic and violent process to democratization.
The Arab world currently and Europe in the nineteenth century had no past experiences with democracy. Both in the Middle East and in nineteenth century Europe, religion played a major role, in the Middle East political Islam exist and in nineteenth century Europe, the German
Centre Party and the Christian Democratic parties existed in France and Italy. Class and nation tended to be more important sources of identity than religion in Europe, while the opposite can be said in the Middle East today. Yet, it was not always like this in the
Middle East, from the 1950s to the 1970s; Arab politics was dominated more by
