Topic: 2025 – Authoritarianism and Democracy
Country: Slovenia
Delegate Name: Ryan Keil
Spec. Pol.
Authoritarianism & Democracy
Slovenia
Ryan Keil
Slovenia’s Position on Authoritarianism & Democracy
As a democracy watching the world, I am concerned about the lack of democratic progress in the world in the past 20 years. From my perspective we need to improve democracy throughout more of the world effectively and peacefully. Democracies in the world since 1900 have grown overall, there have been major setbacks including two World Wars and the rise of more tyrannies throughout the world. Democratic rights were limited for the most part at the start of the 20th century, but by 1950, over 200 million people were living in liberal democracies. After 1950, democracy throughout the world saw massive growth, and by the 1990s much of the world was and continues to be living under democracies. Recently however, it seems that much of the world’s democracies are being threatened and are being resorted to tyranny. Television personality Jeremy Clarkson said something relevant to this as well. Clarkson in an interview with Yahoo Entertainment said, “Years ago, we drove from Iraq into eastern Turkey into Syria, Damascus and Israel. We did the Crimea to Ukraine. You couldn’t do any of that now.” For background Clarkson started his career in the late 1990s through the early 2000s. He shares the same concerns with the world that Slovenia does as well. Many of the issues of the world that are occurring today are because of poor leadership in the countries around the world.
Slovenia was part of the large increase in democracies during the 1990s, gaining its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Slovenia has been a flawed democracy ever since, much like the United States.
Current UN proposals that are relevant are the following: supporting human rights, instigating the rule of law, and trying to better communicate with other countries and to get them to cooperate. Supporting conflict resolution is important along with public institutions and anti-corruption efforts. Other ways that are trying to help with the growing concerns is there to be a way for the people to be able to know what is going on in their government and other governments at all times across the world. The system would be useful for transparency and accountability. Lastly there are also pushes for the UN to make reforms for itself and nations that are a part of the UN.
Slovenia believes that we will be able to have another 1990s and promote democracy throughout the world once again and make the world a better place. All of this starts with creating more democracies and letting the people decide.
