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Demo Promo Non-Unique

Democracy is expanding now

Talbott, 1996 (STROBE TALBOTT is Deputy Secretary of State., “Democracy and the national interest”
Nov/Dec, Foreign affairs)

WHEN THAT idea became the foundation of the American political system in 1776, democracy had been
largely in abeyance for more than two millennia, since the Age of Pericles. For much of its own
history the United States was one of a small group of nations that had institutionalized the right of citizens to govern
themselves. But that characteristically American ideal has gathered force over the last
two decades. In 1974 less than 30 percent of the world's countries were democratic.
Today the figure is over 61 percent. For the first time in history a slim but clear
majority of the world's population-54 percent-lives under democracy.

The world is in the midst of the third wave of democratization

Kaloudis, 2003 (George, June, International Journal on World Peace, Why global transformation and not
globalization)

In his book, The Third Wave, Samuel Huntington argues that we are in the midst of a "third
wave" of democratic expansion in the world. he dates the first "long" wave of
democratization back to 1828, with the expansion of democratic suffrage in the United States. It began to
expire in the early 1920s with Mussolini's rise to power in Italy, giving rise to a "first reverse wave." A second,
shorter, democratic wave began at the end of World War II and continued until about
1962, incorporating a number of Latin American and newly independent colonies. In
the early 1960s, a "second reverse wave" began, bringing widespread military and one-party rule. The third
wave, which began with the overthrow of the Cateano dictatorship in Portugal in
April 1974, became a truly global phenomenon during the 1980s, doubling by 1990
the number of democracies in countries with populations exceeding one million.
Domestic as well as international factors have made this third wave of
democratization deeper and more extensive. Some of the domestic factors include: authoritarian
divisions and failures, and changes in civil society.5 Some of the international factors include: international sanctions,
technological changes, and international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank,
and the World Trade Organization (WTO).