I need a list of Failed Republics

[ck4829]

I'm doing some research and there is something I can't find.

Can someone give me a list of Democratic Republics, Republics, etc. that have failed or collapsed because of coups, economic collapse, etc.?

[YOY]

1. For starters

The French Republic has rebuilt itself a couple of times dur to political restructuring.

The former Yugoslavia was a democratic republic for a short time before it truly went kaput due to ethnic tensions.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Pakistan was once a Parliamentary Democracy

Now it's a military dictatorship under Pervez Musharraf.

[MADem]

8. And how ironic that the monkey, who did not even know the guy's NAME

during the 2000 campaign (Who's the leader of Pakistan? Uhhhhh, mmmmhhh, hnnnnhhhhh, uh, the General? Uh, uh???) is now paying that guy hand over fist to not give Usama too much help, and to keep an eye on some of his fundie subordinates in uniform so that they don't help the bum too much!

[Canuckistanian]

16. He was forced to learn pretty quickly

Although he should have known. Any of the "stan" countries are where the real battles are being fought with the jihadists.

[afdip]

3. chile, guatamala, haiti, czechoslovakia (immediately after wwii)

[Walt Starr]

4. How about Rome? n/t

[LizW]

5. I misread your topic as "Failed Republicans"

and I thought, "How big is your hard drive?"

:rofl:

[LeighAnn]

12. Yep, me too

I thought to myself, "That's going to be a mighty long list!"

[acmejack]

6. United States of America

[Inland]

7. Weimar. nt

[msongs]

9. how about "free republic".....? nt

[Vogon_Glory]

10. Spain

The Spanish Republic of the 1930's perished in a bloddy civil war after General Francisco Franco led a revolt against it. Franco's forces finished off the republic in 1939.

There is discussion that the Spanish republic was already dying even away from the front lines. George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia makes a strong case that the Stalin-influenced Spanish Communist Party was already subverting the republic's democratic institutions in a bid for control.

[NNadir]

11. The first was Athens. Few democracies last more than a few centuries.

This one is failing right now.

Of course, few nations last for more than a few centuries, so the question does not imply that democracy is a poor form of government.

I note that the United States almost disintegrated in the period between 1861-1865. To quote famously Lincoln, "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any other nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."

We're overdue for failure, but apparently we won't have to wait much longer. We deserve what's coming to us. We haven't been paying attention, and democracy depends, obviously, on the attention of the people.

[formerrepuke]

13. Spain in the 1930s.. secular republic vs. right wing ultra-conservatives

....and guess who won..

[ck4829]

14. Thanks everybody - Check out my thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5501048&mesg_id=5501048

[Hyernel]

15. Republic of Texas

Becoming a failed Republic as it became a State.