Of course, as time goes on, it needs to be checked, and rechecked, and corrected, as required. Evolutionary world politics does not, of course, stand alone, complex process, and the primary object of interest for political scientists though it may be. Nor is it the only evolutionarily significant set of trends. If global politics evolution is to be fully understood it must be seen as coevolving with other global evolutionary processes, such as democratization, and the evolution of the global economy. For a rounded understanding, it must also be seen in the context of world system history.
Democracy has many sources, and antecedents going back for centuries.
The world of the 21st century will be majority democratic and that feature will exert a profound influence. That world politics will in the main be a system of relations among democracies. Over the past millenium it has produced and increasingly interdependent world economy, sustained by increasingly open trade regimes. World system evolution is the leading edge of world system history, and a good understanding of that relationship helps to lend a long-term perspective to evolutionary world politics. See Bibliography , esp.