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Chapter : 1. Democracy In The Contemporary World
Recent phase
(A) The Beginning : (B) End of Colonialism : (C) Recent phase : The big push towards democracy came after 1980. The period after 1980 witnessed to fast emergence of democracies in different parts of the world. (i) Democracy was revived in several countries of Latin America (ii) Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991. As a result, Soviet influence over the former east European countries vanished' they changed themselves into democracies. The former 15 republics of the USSR got independent and opted for democracy. (iii) In India's neighborhood, countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal made a transition to democracy. Besides the aspiration of the local people in all these countries, a major reason for expansion of democracy was the open support extended by the USA to such demands.