Democracy Promotion

Assessing the Realist-Neocon Divide in the GOP
Neoconservative ideas—particularly democracy promotion—were placed at the heart of the Bush administration’s grand strategy. By early 2008, Pletka’s statement might very well be true. John McCain’s foreign-policy team has not been ...

To Intervene or Not
Still, the promotion of democracy and human rights is an imperative. Research on democracy promotion explains that human empowerment rather than intentional restructuring of governments is most successful at democracy promotion. ...

Getting it Right on Iraq
Democracy promotion is not a reason to chose war. The goals we set out to achieve were worthwhile but the odds of reaching them were so slim that it wouldn’t have been worth the cost in blood and treasure to try. ...

Iranian Minority Caught In Iran-US Bind
Ethnic Azeris have meanwhile taken pains to distance themselves from these reports, which, along with the declared $75 million for democracy promotion within Iran, have been used by the Iranian government as a basis for crackdowns and ...

The costs of the Iraq war
Diamond, a Stanford University expert on democracy promotion and author of the new book The Spirit of Democracy. Number one, it didn't go well, he said. US efforts to spread democracy were equated with insecurity, violence, refugees. ...

Welcome to the Youniverse!
In Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, he argues that “a rhetoric of freedom, democracy, choice, and access has covered up the greed and blind self-interest that lie behind what much of the Internet has ...

Taking a Shot at Iranian Democracy
To hell with Iran's democracy, you piece of Zionist shit!!! What a fucking shit rag, readers!!!!!!! All part of the WAR PROMOTION AGENDA of AmeriKa's Zionist-controlled War Dailies!!!! Khamenei's preferred style of leadership is to ...

WORLD VIEW：The Rise of China’s Neocons
These include resisting democracy promotion and humanitarian intervention abroad, in order to protect China and its allies from external interference. The neocomms have taken up the idea of multilateralism― associated in the West with ...

China's Current Problems
But they were divided on how best to deal with Beijing, which presents both a huge opportunity for the island's powerful business community and a looming threat to its evolving democracy. Ma has based his campaign on promises to reverse ...

i love reading the newspaper
On Monday, Bhutan is set to become the world's newest democracy, with the first general elections in the history of this isolated Buddhist kingdom. At the heart of this brave new world lies a paradox: It is people power by royal decree. ...