About the last map
17 may 2004
There is a need to made some corrections here:
- Georgia (a country between Russia and Turkey) is now
democratic and should be marked blue.
The revolution of November 2003 was the classic example of "democratic
revolution".
- Haiti is populistic and should be marked red. I mentioned that I was not able to
trace situation in all countries, especially in African, and Central
America Countries (actually Haiti was one of the reasons for that
reservation) -
my mistake because of the lack of data.
- There are some other countries for which I have not enough data
to determine political system, especially in Caribbean, West Africa,
Oceania. And unfortunately Armenia (a country close to Georgia).
- Referring to countries marked with yellow dots, "in a very short time" means
"before China" (i.e. in next 5-10 years). Some of these countries will
become democratic very soon like Russia or Pakistan, but with some
others like ex. Saudi Arabia or Burma is hard to predict anything for
sure.
- I did not marked some dependent countries like Tibet, because
there are still many of them, often with undefined borders.
- I was right about Iraqi. Using a historic comparison: the
situation here resembles a little Jewish part of Palestine during the
last years of
of British occupation or a national uprising in Massachusetts in 1775.
But
now the Americans play the role of British.
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