Samuel Huntington: Selected Summaries: SELECTED SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

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We have summarized the essentials of this important and controversial North American political scientist: from THE THIRD WAVE: DEMOCRATIZATION AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, chapter 6, "Where to?", In which he analyzes a so-called anti-democratic third counter-wave. Then, we have worked with the text "The confrontation of civilizations". And from THE POLITICAL ORDER IN CHANGING SOCIETIES, we have stopped on the question of Praetorianism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Oct 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201231019

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Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Samuel Huntington: Selected Summaries

SELECTED SUMMARIES

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SAMUEL HUNTINGTON: SELECTED SUMMARIES

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Table of Contents

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Huntington, Samuel | THE THIRD WAVE: DEMOCRATIZATION AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY | CHAPTER 6  WHERE TO?

Causes of the third wave: will they continue, weaken, change?

A third contrail?

Beyond democratization: obstacles and opportunities

Policies

Culture

Confucianism

Islam

The limits of cultural barriers

Economy

Economic development and political leadership

Huntington, Samuel | THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS? | The next conflict model

Why civilizations will clash

The fracture lines between civilizations

The regrouping of civilizations: the sister country syndrome

The West versus the rest

The torn countries

The Confucian-Islamic connection

Implications for the West

Huntington, Samuel | POLITICAL ORDER IN CHANGING SOCIETIES | The sources of praetorianism

From oligarchic praetorianism to radicalism: irruption coups and the soldier as a reformer.

Radical praetorianism: social forces and political techniques.

From mass to radical praetorianism: veto coups and the soldier as guardian

From praetorianism to civic order: the soldier as an institution builder

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Huntington, Samuel

THE THIRD WAVE: DEMOCRATIZATION AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY

CHAPTER 6  WHERE TO?

The democratization of almost 30 countries between 1974 and 1990, is it part of a world democratic revolution", or is it something limited?

Causes of the third wave: will they continue, weaken, change?

Three factors are linked to democratization: one of them is the EXPANSION OF CHRISTIANITY; as long as the number of Christians multiplies, it is possible that the activity of church leaders in defense of democracy will continue.

By 1990, however, the Catholic impetus for democratization had run out, as most Catholic countries had democratized. In Eastern Europe, the WITHDRAWAL OF POWER FROM THE USSR allowed democratization. However, in the late 1990s, conservative forces tried to return to order and discipline.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the US was an agent of democratization, whereas before it was not among its priorities. Now, the issue is likely to return to the back burner, due to the end of the Cold War. One of the reasons why the US supported anti-communist dictatorships was to oppose the USSR.

With the threat of anti-capitalist revolutions reduced, the need to advocate democracy, which appears to be a more effective deterrent, from the point of view of American interests, against communism than the use of dictatorships, is also reduced.

The non-democratic countries of Africa, the Middle East and continental Asia were not so influenced by the U.S. Outside Central America and the Caribbean, the most important area of the Third World in which the U.S. has strong interests is the Persian Gulf. The American model of democracy was invoked by many, because according to Huntington (who was a member of the pro-American and anti-communist Trilateral Commission), it symbolizes freedom, strength and success.

But by the late 1980s, the decline of the U.S. was already undeniable: crime, drugs, trade and budget deficits, low investment and savings, poor education, decaying cities, political stagnation, economic inefficiency, social chaos, and so on. The failures of the U.S. were interpreted as the failures of democracy.

On the other hand, the SNOWBALL EFFECT is false: it is not because countries A and B have a snowball effect, but because countries A and B have a snowball effect.

C will do so, since ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS FAVORABLE TO THE EXISTENCE OF DEMOCRACY DO NOT EXIST ALL OVER THE WORLD.

By 1990, most of the causes that had generated democratization movements were either exhausted or weakened.

A third contrail?

The following factors contributed to the first and second counter-waves (i.e., against democracy): weakness of democratic values in the ruling groups, economic crises,