Economic domination has been advanced by the subversion of democracy, not by the promotion of it. The whole neoliberal program focuses on establishing the total autonomy of business from governmental controls. Corporations are themselves un-democratic, authoritarian institutions, and they demand to be free to operate in society without any democratic oversight. No “Free Trade” agreement was ever submitted to the public for a popular vote. There was never a referendum in any country asking the people if they wanted to take loans from the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank.
There has not been a coup in any country in the last 100 years against a democratically elected leader except that it was undertaken with the support of business, for the sake of business.
If you imagine that the West is trying to “spread democracy” in the Muslim world…or anywhere…you are severely misinformed. The United States has rigidly, indeed, ferociously, suppressed democracy and democratic movements wherever they have appeared on earth