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Democratic Development in the South in the Next Millennium: What Prospects for Avoiding Anarchy and Authoritarianism?

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Globalization and the South

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Abstract

Dramatic changes in the global political economy in the 1990s have encouraged a widespread enthusiasm among liberal scholars to engage in debates/ideas such as ‘the end of history’ (Fukuyama, 1992) and ‘the clash of civilizations’ (Huntington, 1993). These suggest that the future of the world lies in: (1) the construction of liberal democracy; (2) the promotion of market capitalism; and (3) the linear movement towards modernity. Continuing transformations in the global political economy also pose major challenges to established theories, assumptions, prescriptions, frameworks and concepts in several interrelated fields such as political economy, development studies, comparative foreign policy and security studies. These create new opportunities, indeed imperatives, to define and redefine many dominant theories and notions. More importantly, these changes motivate academics and activists, policy-makers and politicians to search for alternatives to established as well as emerging neo-liberal dogma: to expand the agenda beyond structural adjustment and political democracy. (For example, see Gills, Chapter 4, this volume).

Democracy had come to be seen as the only legitimate and viable alternative to an authoritarian regime of any type (Huntington, 1991, p. 58).

Instead of more democratic policy-making processes, electoral systems have become more nonrepresentative, more divorced from popular needs. Authoritarianism is on the rise everywhere and repression has become a routine feature of civilian rule (Petras and Morley, 1992, p. 7).

We live in a corporatist society with soft pretensions to democracy. More power is slipping every day over towards the groups. That is the meaning of the marketplace ideology and of our passive acceptance of whatever form globalization happens to take (Saul, 1995, p. 32).

Larger and larger numbers of people are no longer willing to accept, fatalistically, exploitative or repressive regimes and state structures, or a development paradigm that excludes them. They may not be concerned with the capture of state power and ‘big bang’ revolutions. Yet they may in reality be building, consciously or unconsciously a countervailing power to the dominant state power (Wignaraja, 1993, pp. 18, 19).

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Shaw, T.M., Quadir, F. (1997). Democratic Development in the South in the Next Millennium: What Prospects for Avoiding Anarchy and Authoritarianism?. In: Thomas, C., Wilkin, P. (eds) Globalization and the South. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25633-4_3

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