scholarly journals Political Development in Palembang During the Liberal Democracy Era (1951–1959)

Author(s):  
Adhitya Rol Asmi ◽  
Muhammad Reza Pahlevi ◽  
Yunani

Having defeated global socialism in the competition, liberalism and democracy proved their superiority. Having freed themselves from obvious external threats, domestic political challenges began to acquire increasing importance. Internal factors mean both the problems of each particular democratic society and the problems of conceptual understanding of liberal democracy in the contemporary context. It turns out that populism in the last 5 years has become the most dangerous problem in a number of young and mature democracies. The populist rhetoric of politicians is aimed at the part of the electorate that is ignorant and eager to hear quick solutions to complex systemic problems. This is especially dangerous for societies in which a political nation has not yet been formed, which is just beginning to take its first steps towards its own institutionalization and therefore requires the attention and concrete action of responsible civil society. Exacerbations of the chronic problems of society remain unnoticed by many influential politicians. The problem of developing complex solutions to the new challenges of our time, in particular the need to understand what price society pays for the dogmatic faith in the permanent liberalization of the democratic process and the inclusion of various groups, is being solved. The necessity of adapting the structures of liberal democracy to the new conditions of the prevailing modern political reality in order to maintain political security is noted. A proposal is made to look pragmatically at the state of affairs of modern liberalism.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luqman Raheem ◽  
Nasir Durid

The regional factor has always played an important role in the political developments of various countries and political experiences, as this factor constituted the role of the direct incubator for all the successful and failed experiences of political development throughout our time. The process of democratization is considered one of the most important political experiments of our time, which gained wide momentum after the Second World War. Especially after the peoples of the world realized the importance and preference of this system compared to the rest of the political systems. After the end of the Cold War, the world witnessed a remarkable trend towards liberal democracy, exhilarated by the euphoria of the victory of the Western camp led by the United States of America over its eastern historical opponent (led by the Soviet Union). Liberal democracy and its sovereignty over the world, rather they unleashed an unbridled optimism that says: ""The peoples and societies of the world are moving towards adopting the model of liberal democracy, because it is the model most responsive to the aspirations of human freedom and the release of his energies.


1989 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Abente

Although the study of the liberal republic (1870-1936) could shed considerable light on the overall pattern of political development, this period has remained one of the most under-studied and undervalued of the already under-researched history of Paraguay. In an attempt to fill that lacuna—albeit partially—this article reexamines the available data, discusses new evidence, and reinterprets the period with different theoretical categories. In this manner, it seeks to answer the question of why, in spite of a relatively favorable ideological environment, liberal democracy failed to consolidate and how this failure eventually opened the doors to the authoritarian regime of General Alfredo Stroessner.


This book critically reflects on the failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-market capitalism, its citizens free to live in peace and prosperity. The book argues that mistakes made by the coalition and the Iraqi political elite set a sequence of events in motion that have had devastating consequences for Iraq, the Middle East and for the rest of the world. Today, as the nation faces perhaps its greatest challenge in the wake of the devastating advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and another US-led coalition undertakes renewed military action in Iraq, understanding the complex and difficult legacies of the 2003 war could not be more urgent. Ignoring the legacies of the Iraq War and denying their connection to contemporary events could mean that vital lessons are ignored and the same mistakes made again.


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