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From the past secretary of condition and best-selling writer - a sweeping look at the global have difficulties for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. From the finish of the Freezing Conflict and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing have difficulties for human privileges in the Middle East, Condoleezza Grain has offered on leading lines of record. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of liberty, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil privileges movement for dark Americans. In this booklet, Rice talks about what these epochal occurrences teach us about democracy. At the same time when people across the world are questioning whether democracy is at decline, Rice stocks insights from her encounters as a policymaker, scholar, and resident, in order to put democracy's issues into perspective. When america was founded, it was the only make an effort at self-government on the globe. Today over fifty percent of all countries be eligible as democracies, and over time that number will continue to grow. Yet little or nothing worthwhile ever before comes easily. Using America's long have difficulties as a design template, Rice pulls lessons for democracy across the world - from Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, to Kenya, Colombia, and the center East. She finds that no transitions to democracy will be the same because every country starts off in another type of place. Pathways diverge and sometimes group backward. Time casings for success vary substantially, and countries often suffer false starts off before getting it right. But, Grain argues, that does not mean they should not try. As the ideal conditions for democracy are well known in academia, they never can be found in real life. The question is not how to create perfect circumstances but how to go forward under difficult ones. These same insights apply in overcoming the challenges faced by government authorities today. The pursuit of democracy is a continuing struggle shared by people across the world, whether they are opposing authoritarian regimes, creating new democratic establishments, or reforming older democracies to raised surpass their ideals. The task of securing it is never finished.
