Supermakter har en tendens att lägga sig i andra länders angelägenheter, t.ex. genom att intervenera med militärmakt. En ny studie* finner att sådana interventioner i regel inte har gynnat demokrati i de länder som har invaderats, och det spelar ingen roll om supermakten i fråga själv var demokrati eller diktatur:
We find that superpower interventions are followed by significant declines in democracy, and that the substantive effects are large. Perhaps surprisingly, once endogeneity is addressed, US and Soviet interventions have equally detrimental effects on the subsequent level of democracy; both decrease democracy by about 33%. Our findings thus suggest that one should not expect significant differences in the adverse institutional consequences of superpower interventions based on whether the intervening superpower is a democracy or a dictatorship.”
Ytterligare något som talar för försiktighet med amerikanska militära ingripanden framöver. Pågående experiment i Afghanistan och Irak får utvisa om utifrån införda demokratiseringar i nutid kan bli beständiga. Och, därmed, om John McCains demokratiseringsplaner har framtiden för sig.
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*Easterly, William, Satyanath, Shanker och Berger, Daniel (2008). ”Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Investigation.” Brookings Global Economy & Development Working Paper nr. 17.
We could also find no common ground in aesthetics because of my own obsession with the philosophy of music. Dick seemed not only, as I have mentioned, to be deeply unmusical, like Freud, but he sometimes seemed even slightly irritated by the very existence of music and certainly by the thought that someone could take it sufficiently seriously to try to think about it in a sustained and systematic way.”
Alf Svensson 
Nonicoclolasos 
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