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Over the last decade , Enterprise Funds have blazed a new path for development aid , merging public capital with private management to nurture businesses in new democracies . We're teaching largely about the fundamental issues of achieving democracy and justice in a society . Under these conditions , Africa and the new democracies must not be abandoned . " The democracies have the antibodies , political and judicial , to cure the infection " . That faith drove his work on regional peacekeeping in Southern and West Africa in the 1990s , as it had his efforts to nurture democracy in Nigeria in the 1970s . Assistance from the State Department and the Department of Defense is aimed at stabilizing and building the democracies of Central and South America . Not the most efficient way to do business , but democracy never is . The result has been an explosive rise of vicious , transnational gangs that now threaten the stability of the region 's fragile democracies . In the realm of FOIA , I have found much work by lawyers , legal experts , historians , bureaucrats , and legislators that focus on the bigger pictures of why FOIA is important and its role in democracy . The emerging situation in Zimbabwe poses the greatest threat to national security our young democracy has yet faced .