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regions of the world, and especially not concerning the inequalities between
global the regions. Globalization is an enemy of equality — but at the same time
it is the reason for an increase of equality.
CONCLUSION
Democracy must not be seen as a perfect system. Any known form of democracy
is full of contradiction, and any democracy can be improved — and it also can
lose some of its qualities.
At this very moment, in the second decade of the 21* century, there is
no conclusive alternative to democracy. There will never be a guarantee for
democracy — but where is non-democracy? The best argument in favour of
democracy is the catastrophic consequences all modern non-democracies have
lead to.
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DAHL, Robert A., Democracy and its Critics, New Haven, Yale University Press,
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FUKUYAMA, Francis, The End of History and the Last Man, New York, The Free
Press, 1992.
HELD, David - MEPHAM, David, Progressive Foreign Policy - New Directions for
the U.K, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Polity Press, 2007.
PIKETTY, Thomas, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge, Mass., The
Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2014.
For further reading:
LIJPHART, Arend, Thinking About Democracy. Power Sharing and Majority Rule
in Theory and Practice, London, Routledge, 2008.
MÜLLER, Jan-Werner, Contesting Democracy. Political Ideas in Twentieth¬
Century Europe, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2011.
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