The Pattern of a Potentate
Democracy has long been accepted as a sacrosanct value of humanity. However, in the practice of democracy, it is the essence and intent of this value that matters. Its form and format could never be the same across the world as it has to come under the influence of respective cultures rooted largely in civilizational heritage.
Tumbling into totalism
The world has gone through a number of stages of development—be they physical, cultural or political. No single nation has ever traversed the same course of historical development as others. All nation states have their own cycles of ascendency and decline. Each has its own pace and level of development at different points in time. After all, it
