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Complete 2 page APA formatted essay: Discuss the relationship between globalisation and democracy (with reference to the asia pacific).Globalisation is metaphorically making the world a smaller place

Complete 2 page APA formatted essay: Discuss the relationship between globalisation and democracy (with reference to the asia pacific).

Globalisation is metaphorically making the world a smaller place as it is is now a lot faster to travel or communicate with any part of the world. Globalisation has also led to the merging of some cultures and the quick transmission of ideas and information.3 The process of globalisation is supposed to offer economic benefits to all countries involved within it.

For the developed countries of the West and Japan it brings cheaper goods and services whilst for developing countries in Asia pacific and other regions it brings employment and investment. Along with the investment, ideas are also exported to developing countries, ideas such as democracy.4 Some have attributed the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe along with the brutally repressed student uprising in China with globalisation and an increasing desire for democracy. 5 China although it has retained its communist leadership has become increasingly involved with the globalisation since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. The Chinese government adopted capitalist economic policies to drive forward economic development whilst retaining tight political control as they believed involvement in globalisation would possibly increase the demand for democracy.6

Globalisation can and has played a role in promoting and bring about democracy in the Asia pacific region although it has not been an easy or straightforward relationship. Countries such as South Korea have had long periods of economic growth and have benefited from globalisation. South Korea was also helped by its closeness to Japan. it however was not a democracy as such until the 1990s. The United States supported South Korea because it was anti-Communist.7 During the cold war the United States was happy to support not only South Korea but other undemocratic countries such as

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