Pols 4660 Democracy and Democratization

Answer the following journal questions. Dont need to put in any citations or anything just answer the questions using the pdfs and whatever else you might need. In your journal entry for this week, make sure that you highlight the following “journal props” as well any other materials you learned or gleaned from the lecture notes and readings. They are provided to you simply as “guidelines” to direct your focus on the subject matter. You should follow the journal “props” as indicated, then add on other materials gleaned from your assigned readings as well as the lecture. Please do not confine yourself, but you need to incorporate as much detail as possible to convince the instructor/reader that you have read and understood the materials for the week. If you have any questions, please let me know:

  1. Explain the development and history of the Cold War and its end in 1989-1991
  2. Explain the concept of bipolarity and the “ideological conflict” between the US and the Soviet Union 1945-1991
  3. What is unipolarity and how did it emerge unto the international system?
  4. What is the theoretical basis of Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History and the Last Man” (The Fukuyama thesis)?
  5. What is theoretical argument of Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” (the Huntington thesis)?
  6. What was the enduring ramification of the Cold War for democracy and the “democratic peace” dividend?
  7. What is the traditional character of interstate relations between democracies and why do they not (generally) fight each other?

Requirements: 7 questions

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