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Globalization and the international system

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The demonization of the forces of fragmentation in the post-Cold War era is a temptation among Western ideologues looking for a defining issue that will help explain political realities. This temptation, however, should be avoided as fragmentation is not always negative and is even in some cases a by-product of globalization. As the forces of globalization sweep across the world, many human communities are taking up resistance through increasing demands for identity in such systems as nationalism and ethnocentrism.

World politics, Nationalism

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Misunderstanding gradualism

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The transfer of a system of rule from a dictatorship to a democracy has been examined in terms of a sequential one against a gradualist approach, where countries take incremental steps towards democracy while pursuing state-building and rule-of-law reforms.

United States, Southeast Asia, Democratization, Dictatorship, Gradualism (Political philosophy)

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Communism's many legacies in East-central Europe

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Some of the legacies left over from the communist regime such as ethnocratic, authoritarian and violent subcultures continue to erode the democratic culture prevalent in many regimes in East-central Europe.

Europe, Authoritarianism, Subculture

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