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 laodan rated 17 months ago - THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACYvia Le monde diplomatique, in Trilateral Commission.org Task Force Report #8 For almost a quarter-century the Trilateral countries have shared a tripartite interest in military security, economic development, and political democracy.
After twenty-five years, it is not sur...
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- laodan rated 17 months ago
- THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACYvia Le monde diplomatique, in Trilateral Commission.org Task Force Report #8 For almost a quarter-century the Trilateral countries have shared a tripartite interest in military security, economic development, and political democracy.
After twenty-five years, it is not surprising that earlier assumptions and policies relating to military security need to be reviewed and altered in the light of the changed circumstances. Nor is it surprising that the policies and institutions of the postwar economic system based on the preeminence of the dollar are in heed of a drastic overhaul. Governments, after all, have traditionally existed to deal with problems of security and economics, and, individually and collectively, to adapt their policies in these areas to changing environments.
What is much more disturbing, because it is more surprising, is the extent to which it appears that the process of reconsideration must extend not only to these familiar arenas of governmental policy but also to the basic institutional framework through which governments govern. What are in doubt today are not just the economic and military policies but also the political institutions inherited from the past. Is political democracy, as it exists today, a viable form of government for the industrialized countries of Europe, North America, and Asia? Can these countries continue to function during the final quarter of the twentieth century with the forms of political democracy which they evolved during the third quarter of that century?
Changes in the international distribution of economic, political, and military power and in the relations both among the Trilateral societies and between them and the Second and Third Worlds now confront the democratic societies with a set of interrelated contextual challenges which did not exist in the same way a decade ago.
THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACYTrilateral Commission u00a9 1975, New York University Press. Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington and Joji Watanuki. Introduction
THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY.Report on the governability of democracies to the Trilateral. 227 pages FREE PDF. This seems to be the original text.
I'm familiar with the Trilateral since the seventies and read some of the reports they published as well as their critique by researchers at the University of Louvain who were amongst the most vocal critics of the Trilateral. But I had never heard about THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY.
Here lays the intellectual foundation, written 30 years ago, for today's trials at breaking down the institutions of democracy in the Western world. See Bush, Blair, Merkel, Sarkozy and the others under this extremely enlightening angle.
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