‘Democracy Police’ Under ´Double Standards’: Bad for Preserving USA Superpower
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Published Date: 07 October 2022
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Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher
Researcher in International Relations with a Focus on Security, Political and Economic Risks for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade
07 October 2022 at 03:47. The USA has taken the role of ´police democracy´ for many years, and it is indeed appreciated by those who care about preserving democracy. However, it is unnecessarily good for the USA in terms of geopolitics when Russia and China, its rivals, do not interfere in the internal affairs of their allies, especially China. China treats its allies like customers, so from a marketing perspective, China cares about the potential ´sale´ (FDI and export) to their allies and for their ability to ´pay´ (payments and loans). Russia, on the contrary to China, treats its allies like ´fathers and sons´, so it is loyal relations in the long-run. The USA is a different story. The USA engaged actively in regime transformation into democracy while punishing regimes via sanctions if the regime stopped acting like a democracy. Nonetheless, the USA less punishes Western strategic allies for democracy problems, like in the case of Israel, which is perceived as ´double standards, regardless of democratic problems in the USA amidst Trump's behaviour and his policy, so many do not see the USA as a full democracy. Hence, from a country perspective that is looking for a ´provider´ (superpower), then for many countries, Russia and China are more attractive than the USA, especially if the countries are half-democracies, such as many countries in Africa and South America. Thereby, should the USA stop acting like a ´police democracy´? The answer is not simple, yet the answer is simple and clear from the superpower perspective. The USA should engage in preserving democratic values, but not in an active way, because from a superpower perspective, the USA has lost many ´customers´ due to its active policy of ´police democracy´, so paradoxically, instead of getting more democratic countries worldwide, the USA pushed many half-democratic countries into the hands of its ´competitors´, Russia and China. Therefore, from a marketing perspective, punishment never helps to preserve customers or to get new customers, so the USA may need to transform its policy into a ´marketing democracy´ to preserve its position as a superpower.
