Foreign Policy: America's silence encourages authoritarian regimes

Foreign Policy published an article by Larry Diamond, saying that freedom and democratic values ​​in the world are undergoing a difficult test, and that the popular movement in many countries - including Algeria, Sudan, Venezuela and Hong Kong - indicates that people's aspirations for freedom and democracy did not come to an end with the Arab Spring and repression. Governing regimes.

Diamond says the world is now at a crossroads, and the United States must decide whether to use its diplomatic and financial resources to defend freedom and democracy or to deny those values ​​for narrow national gains.

He adds that the stagnation in the path of freedom and democracy in several countries during the last decade, may lead to a wave of democracies in many parts of the world, to be replaced by authoritarian regimes such as Saudi Arabia and China, working tirelessly to form the areas governed by the rest of the world according to its vision .

According to Diamond, democracy has made a lot of gains since the end of the Cold War, but those gains have ebbed until the fate of freedom and democracy and the right of peoples to their own destiny have been at stake in recent years.

Famines and tyranny
He warned that famines, civil wars and state collapse are a bitter fruit of tyranny, the practices of authoritarian regimes and the absence of democracy in developing countries, and that the world is on the verge of more turmoil and crises that could lead to the failure of other countries unless the United States pays more attention to the poor countries and their ruling regimes. .

He pointed out that the economic and humanitarian crises in many countries around the world - including civil wars in Syria, Libya and Afghanistan, and the inability of many African countries to provide jobs for their citizens and improve their living conditions, and other crises in the world now - will drive more citizens of those countries To migrate from their countries.

The author concludes that the United States does not have the ability to achieve democratic transformation in countries that are ruled by tyranny by using money or weapons, but that it has the ability to support the peoples in pursuit of democratization through their support and the prevailing balance of power in their favor in confronting authoritarian regimes, or failure. In that and let those countries wander into their crises.