Analyze The Actuality And Problems Existing In Iraqi Postwar Construction Of Democracy Under The Dominance Of America

After"9·11"incident, to push the democratization in Middle East becomes the core topic of the American government and out-party once again. In September 2002, the American government issued"the national security strategy report", which ultimately proposed strategy of"Preemptive Strike". After the Afghan war, US started the Iraqi war in March 2003, and overthrew the Saddam regime rapidly. As an example of democratization in Middle East, Iraq has being awkwardly processing the construction of democracy, which was dominated by United States. Combining the development of current affairs, this paper start with the essence of democracy, and then analyze the situations of Iraqi postwar democracy construction. We point out the existing problems in the construction of Iraqi democracy, also we discuss the reason resulting in these problems. All these are very important to recognize the real intent of American, to find out what preconditions needed in the construction of democracy in developing countries, and to forecast the prospect of democracy construction in developing countries.Surrounding the topic of Iraqi democracy construction which process under the lead of the America, this paper involves five chapters:Chapter One: Researches the current studying situation on Iraqi democracy construction. Firstly, it summarized domestic and overseas researches on democratization in the Middle East. Then specify domestic and overseas researches on postwar political reconstruction in Iraq.Chapter Two: Qualify the concept and the essence of democracy. It involves following aspects: the origin and the development of democracy, the understanding on the essence of democracy of scholars in different countries, the preconditions needed in the construction of democracy, and so on. Then qualify the character of democracy.Chapter Three: We discuss the actuality of postwar political reconstruction in Iraq. Firstly, we reviewed the process of putting forward the"Greater Middle East Initiative", discuss what content involved in this program. Then analyze Iraqi domestic social actuality and democracy construction under the lead of the America. We point out the difficulties and existing problems in the construction of democracy.Chapter Four: Basing on the objective and subjective actuality in Iraq, we analyze some factors which hinder Iraq from constructing democratic system. As the restriction of economic level,social structure,political structure and so on, the paper point out that Iraq walk with difficulty on the road of constructing democracy. Besides, we also figure that there exist some subjective conditions which restrict Iraq democracy construction, such as the traditional Islamic political culture, the radical nationalism against United States, the lacking of consciousness of Nation-identity.Chapter Five: Conclusions. From the above analysis, we draw the conclusion to believe that the construction of democracy demand mature precondition, which involves higher economic level,consummate political system and corresponding political culture. Then we further point out that democracy must be rooted in the interior. The construction of democracy is a long-term and gradual process.