The United States and the Prospects for Democracy in Islamic Countries admin, January 27, 2011September 1, 2024 Foreign Policy In Focus/Institute for Policy Studies January 21, 2011. Also in Common Dreams and Eurasia Review Many in the West are familiar with the way unarmed pro-democracy insurrections have helped bring democracy to Eastern Europe, Latin America, and parts of Asia and Africa. But they discount the chances of such movements in Islamic countries, despite Tunisia being far from the first. Meanwhile, the United States… continues to actively support authoritarian governments… Arab Spring 2011 Democratic Party Foreign Policy Huffington Post Middle East Protest and Resistance democracy