Post on 01-Jan-2016
The End of Empire:Experiments with
FreedomSpring 2015
Challenges to IndependenceLarge population—developing nations (third
world) 70% of world’s population
Experiments in Political Order: Party, Army and Democracy
Common Conditions
India: Western style democracy
Africa: initially rejects democracy
In many cases the military takes power
Latin America and coups
Latin America
Historically, military often involved
Often challenges the elite
Elites are often backed by the U. S.—Chile 1970
Western Style Democracy…Don’t call it a comeback!
Western Democracy reemerges across the world in the 1980s
Spain, Portugal, Greece, Soviet Union, Latin America, Africa, Asia
Most recent—middle east
Why so sudden?
Experiments with Economics
Is poverty inevitable?
The state should rev up the economy, not private industry
Isolation or world market?
Each region has deleoped differentyl
Experiments in Culture: Turkey and Iran
Islam in Turkey
Modernity vs. tradition
Turkey goes modern post WWI
Culture, Society, dress, women
Islam in Iran
Opposition to Shah who was western and backed by U.S.—1970s
The Shah’s western reforms offended some muslims
The mosque becomes center of politics
Sharia law replaces secular
Women’s rights
While swinging toward Islam, the country continued to modernize