By DARLINGTON CHILUBA WHEN democracy was on the upswing in the early 1990s, most late adopters of this ideology hoped for a world in which dialogue resolved matters instead of a gun.After all, the major reason for a divided world had just been curtailed and liberal ideals had come victorious after the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the iron curtain.Wars fought in defence of either communism or capitalism in Africa, Latin-America and Asia eventually ended and ushered in an era of elected governments for the most part.The lives lost in those conflicts, however, were lost permanently. The notion of democracy with its obvious economic benefits of free trade, constitutional guarantees for embedded (or home grown) freedoms, whether free speech or the right to own property, electoral cycles and so on, became the norm.Truth be told, at some point, nations that did not immediately espouse some of these tenets were viewed as holding on […]
IS THE UNITED NATIONS BECOMING POWERLESS?
