In recent years there has been much discussion among politicians and public intellectuals about whether democracy can be engineered or even imposed. Some think that if the appropriate conditions are established, democracy can flourish anywhere. Others think that societies need to come to democratization organically and on their own.

In this one or two paragraph essay please answer: What would each of the theories (such as modernization, structural, etc.) in chapter 6 say about this question?

This is topic surfaces nearly every time we end up in a modern war situation (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.)