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An 8 page review of the 4 sources.theories of Fareed Zakaria and Heinz Klug. This paper relies on examples from around the world but places a particular emphasis on South Africa. Bibliography lists
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He is particularly captivated with the idea of liberal democracy as it relates to economic growth. Zakaria (73) argues that constitutionalism, the move towards a rule by the people,
has worked differently in the West than it has in other regions of the world. He argues that areas that are rich in natural resources, oil rich nations in
particular, have not traveled the typical capitalistic progression "from agriculture to industry to high-level services but rather exploited their vast oil or mineral reserves in order to buy modernity" (73).
There are of course exceptions to this rule (namely the United States, Chile, and Malaysia) but in general those people from high resource areas have simply bought their way
into the modern technological world. They have bought the commercial trappings of modernity such as the cars, the buildings, and the electronics and they have also bought the knowledge
that it takes to operate these trappings. Zakaria (73) contends that the people in these countries remain uneducated and unskilled, they
exist in a primitive society within a world where everything works as it does in the modern technological world elsewhere. The difference, however, is that these people are not
the operators of that world, they are only the users. They have imported their operators, their skilled workforce, just as they have imported the technological goods themselves. Zakaria
(74) observes that: "if an educated populace- or at least a literate one- is a
prerequisite for democratic and participatory government, it is one that the oil-producing Arab states are still lacking after decades of fabulous wealth".
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