Question

How foreign trade helps in expanding democracy? explain in detail

Answer 1

Increased trade and economic integration promote civil and political freedoms directly by opening a society to new technology, communications and democratic ideas.

Economic liberalization provides a counterweight to governmental power — and creates space for civil society.

And by promoting faster growth, trade promotes political freedom indirectly by creating an economically independent and political aware middle class.

In other words, the most economically open countries are three times more likely to enjoy full political and civil freedoms as those that are economically closed. Those that are closed are nine times more likely to completely suppress civil and political freedoms as those that are open.