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Fareed Zakaria and Fouad Ajami explore the theme of modern democracy and the influence it has on Western states over those throughout the rest of the world. Fareed Zakaria has distinguished that the democracy practiced by the liberal western nations was only “one possible exit” from the highway of democracy that was practiced throughout the world. Fouad Ajami has understood that all of the societies were touched by the west and are going toward a simple future that blends traditional and secular agendas. Fareed and Fouad had both seen the sights and topic of modern democracy. They both also see the influence of the western states over those throughout the rest of the globe. Fouad Ajami does seem to be crucial with the continual western intervention in the other nations, and his interpretations modernity as a road of pathway to the free thought. Zakaria’s specific exploration of democracy around the globe centers on his contrast in the middle of what he denotes as liberal and illiberal democracies. Illiberal democracy is a growing industry. Currently, a few illiberal democracies have matured into liberal democracies; if anything, they are moving toward heightened illiberalism. Far from being a temporary or transitional stage, it appears that many countries are settling into a form of government that mixes a substantial degree of illiberalism.

Illiberal Democracy
Illiberal democracy is created when a leader is voted into office by a majority who shares similar ethnic identity. Zakaria’s overall goal is the sustenance of the aforementioned liberties in the lives of the common folk, not just the ruling class or even the majority sect of voters who empower these officials. Additionally, Zakaria warns us against the exploitation of individuals who are elected and gather better power in order to do decent for their nation. Zakaria’s ideology that the United States would rather protect overall liberty of the masses than their sheer voting power. He claims that the solution to the dangers of illiberal democracies is a revival of constitutionalism.

Fouad Ajami he explains that while the West works to check its own power internally due its belief in the type of blended government that Zakaria described, it has found delight in unchecked influence globally. Rather than seeing civilizations along more traditional cultural lines, he claims that the West’s secularization will win out. He continues to be committed to a vision of a state competition model of geopolitics rather than believing that it will give way to regionalism or shear civilizational conflicts. It appears that while Ajami is somewhat critical of continual Western intervention in other nations, his interpretations modernity as a pathway to free thought. He views the globe changing in intellectual demographics due to the exchange of ideas in a cross-cultural fashion. Many of these new democracies never really qualified as such in any real sense, as the governments came into power with military actions, rebellions and coups, and arguably never held a single free and open election. This has ties to globalization. Humbly set, the big expanding international corporations that became so powerful from the falling of the Soviet Union, distorted far more comfortable than doing business with democratic nations. Adding on the worldwide movement toward more liberal democratic values, it was much stress-free and popular for tyrants and despots to call themselves "President" than "Supreme Leader" even if the governments they formed did not really live up to those titles.To truthfully ever call the United States a Liberal democracy at any point in our history, would have to be to ignore the government's treatment of very large portions of the populace.