For two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy enjoyed unprecedented global preeminence. In Europe and Asia, the most successful web of alliances in history, led by the United States, bonded the world’s liberal democracies, not only through common interests, but through deeply shared values as well. As a result, when the Soviet Union collapsed, democracies thrived across most of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in parts of the former Soviet Union and Africa. By then, most of Latin America was already democratic, and about two in five Asian states were as well.The post-Cold War era, …read more
Source: The American Interest
