Essay about Liberal Democracy

Democracy and the challenges it is facing has been the main topic in the field of international politics since some Authoritarian regimes have raised again as a great power after a long time of absence. In this essay, we will look at some of the challenges facing the international democracy based on the work of Azar Gat “ The Return Of Authoritarian Great Powers”. The article is presenting the author view on the rise of authoritarian regimes as the main challenge of liberal democracy. The main part of my essay will be an illustration and reflection on a number of arguments that have been brought by the author. Additionally and before concluding my piece I will establish my own argument as a critical response to the article or more specifically to the Economic efficiency argument brought by Azar Gat.

The Framers believed a society where all people had the liberty to have a say in the government and the ability to have their voice heard was the most sustainable. The importance of this idea led to the adopting of the indirect democracy or republic as it was later renamed. With this,

John Locke presenting many ideas relating to Government, one strong belief he possessed was the fact that a good democratic Government had to exist through the permission of the people being ruled. Seeing that people are born natural free and have control over their political and social state of mind, they had to surrender some of their rights to the government for that government

Originally, men such as Harrington and Montesquieu focused heavily on the laws of nature and true liberty. They sought to ensure that a stable government could truly represent the varied interests of a society.

A lot of Mills' critics worried that his society based upon complete individual freedoms would lead to anarchy and chaos. If everyone could do as they pleased how would there be any order? There needed to be some kind of limitations placed on freedom of expression. Mills agreed.

Francis Fukuyama; political scientist, economist, and author, in his article “The End of History?” discusses he rise and fall of major ideologies such as absolutism, fascism and communism, and suggests that human history should be viewed in terms of a battle of ideologies which has reached its end in the universalization of Western liberal democracy. Fukuyama concludes that the idea of Western liberal democracy has triumphed in the world through a variety of different ways and is a thriving piece of world order today. However, there are certain flaws to his argument including a US- centric view on the events of the twentieth century.

Liberalism has embraced several fundamental details of an element, at a different time in history liberal ideology has emphasized different aspects of its basic principles. Those ideas have much impact on the idea as a force between the people and their government, the rights of people were overthrown, in favor of a new system, their rights were violated,but they strongly believed that natural rights belong to all people, faith, support of all humanity have become very natural to their future. Limited powers to majority rule specified by the minority rights as their support become more of a change in our society.

Mill’s belief promotes that each individual’s opinion is important and therefore should be listened to by the government. The government would not be able to turn a blind eye to a minority; this is one of many influences on classical liberalism. In classical liberalism the government has limited say in the economy and ensures that everyone has the right to his or her freedom of opinion. An

Another criticism of liberalism is that between the rights of the few and those of the many. One of the fundamental problems of liberal democracy was that it insisted on defending the rights of the many. In particular, fascism opposes liberalism for its materialism, rationalism, individualism, and utilitarianism. Fascists believe that the liberal emphasis on individual freedom produces national divisiveness. Liberals, on the other hand, defend the rights and interests of individuals and support the idea that a democracy acted only to protect

This theory was told about in the article “The End of History” by Francis Fukuyama. The idea that history ends when the world’s government is a form of Western liberal democracy is wrong for multiple reasons. Overall, there are two main threats to liberalism: fascism and communism. Both of these forms of governments were designed to be another alternative to Western liberal democracy and created to be better than it. They both have failed. For example, fascism was destroyed because of its lack of success. This was demonstrated by post-WWII Germany and its other counterparts from being bound to self destruct. Communism is different, however. The creator of this government, Karl Marx, said that liberal society contained a fundamental contradiction that could not be resolved within context. This “fundamental contradiction” was a class issue between the capital and its workers. This issue was resolved in the West, since the root causes of any economic inequality does not have to do with the underlying legal and social structure of our society. As a result, the appeal of communism in the developed western world is lower than any time since the end of WWI. In short, both Fascism and Communism were designed to be superior types of government but have failed. This could also be said about Western liberal democracy, since

This week’s reading assignment was The End of History by Francis Fukuyama. I thought that it was a great essay that displayed the concerns on ideologies that rise and collapse such as autocracy, fascism and communism, and he proposes that history should be observed in terms of a conflict of beliefs that has reached its end in the universalization of Western liberal democracy. Fukuyama does argue that the western liberalism has triumphed even though it is still in process of materializing in the world. He mentions that it is evident that we are all moving to a more western liberal society due to the growth of western consumerism and the gradual movement that we see in countries that were not a democracy and now are transitioning to a more democratic

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama published "the End of History?" on the National Interest. Throughout the article, he attempted to account for the global changes in the post-Cold War era including the ideological transformation of the Soviet Union by introducing a new idea of 'the end of history'. To Fukuyama, this idea signified the main ground for the turbulence and the systematic reformation. His argument that the history will no longer evolve has two main significations. First, the ideas or ideologies humans developed throughout the history reached their end points. The victory of the west meant that there was no other alternative ideology to substitute for liberal democracy. Second, the western liberal democracy will be universalised as it

This perspective is not a liberalist policy as it lacks the liberal ideals of democracy and lacks the consideration of other factors such as the

In conclusion, however, I find that it is not a meaningful argument to examine if ‘the end of history’ has indeed taken place, simply because Francis Fukuyama has set the basis of his theory too wide. People will naturally gravitate towards having more options in their lives, be it socially, economically or in this case, politically. This tendency would thus make Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’ irrefutable. The more pertinent question to explore would be how the end goal of liberal democracy can be properly managed, with it being based on the twin principles of liberty and equality. At this end point of history as we know it, trade-offs have to be made between the two- equality cannot be achieved without the actions of a state controlling liberty, while liberty cannot be attained fully without social inequality. The end of history has dawned, where there would be no further meaningful challenge to liberal democracy, but a new battle awaits with the conundrum of balance between liberty and equality in liberal

There are many classification of liberalism, firstly, sociological liberalism, is a theory ‎that has view of international relations is Connections between nations and