Are we moving towards democracy at a global level?

Answer 1

* In the past 40 years, democracy has expanded significantly (in what scientists have called "waves") with countries in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey in the 1970s and 1980s), South America (in the 1980s and early 1990s) and a number of countries in East-Central Europe and a few in East Asia (early-to-mid 1990s) moved towards democracy, many with astounding successes (some of them turning from totalitarian regimes to fully democratic and free open societies in just a few years). However, many other states have failed going on this path, with one kind of authoritarianism being replaced by another (as was the situation in Central Asia, Russia, China etc. etc.). There is a whole transitology debate going on in the field of comparative politics, on whether we can speak of a movement towards democratization or if there are rather more paths that states follow. Search for Linz and Stepan's book on Problems of Democratic Transition... and for Carothers' 2002 article (The end of the Transition Paradigm) for the competing understandings on democratization. More, I find the argument below as nothing more than a poorly made-out marxist-conspiratological critique made by somebody with no connection to politics - there are "non-powers", very poor countries, that are democratic such as Benin, Ghana or Mongolia, and rich countries (world powers) which are miserably undemocratic (such as Russia or China)

* No, we are not moving towards democracy at a global level because democracy is being concentrated in some particular regions of the world for their own citizens and the people of the rest of the world are being exploited as their subjects of experimentation either as weapon testing laboratories or others.The people of developing countries still feel democracy as a dream who are always in the hands of global powers to become political or human subjects of experimentation.

Answer 2

Yes, Soviet Union