Democracy Promotion

Burmese Gem Sanctions: Doing Good or Just Feeling Good?
If the Burmese Democracy Promotion Act of 2007 which recently passed the United States Senate were to become law, it could very well have the effect of limiting the flow of rubies into the United States because the Customs Service is ...

Obama's foreign policy plan
They envision a doctrine that first ends the politics of fear and then moves beyond a hollow, sloganeering democracy promotion agenda in favor of dignity promotion, to fix the conditions of misery that breed anti-Americanism and ...

State Department urged to address ‘shocking’ violations
Susan Johnson, senior coordinator for democracy promotion for the State Department’s bureau of democracy, human rights and labor, attended the briefing and said the US government has already taken some measures to address concerns ...

Breaking The Mindset
Team Obama denotes it as the difference between “Democracy promotion,” and “Dignity promotion.” But on a more metaphysical, or at least meta-political, level, Obama is again challenging America where his opponents continue the same ...

The Elephant Divided
The ideals of human rights and democracy promotion cannot and should not be jettisoned from US foreign policy—but realist cautions about 'ideological overstretch' are ignored at their peril. Whatever the outcome of this election, ...

It's Not Your Grandfather's Oil Industry
The protesters claimed that the industry group was changing its name to the Alternative Power Institute and notifying the US Congress that, in light of API's just announced transition to promotion of renewable energy technologies, ...

Would Gross National Happiness increase under democracy?
But the kingdom is, in many ways, a strikingly conformist place where the outside word is viewed warily and self-promotion and confrontation are frowned upon. Bhutan's election campaign was exceedingly mild by the standards of other ...

Inspiration from Obama’s Speech
His emphasis on the culture of media, politicians’ behaviour in American society to use racial hatred as publicity stunts contributes to the promotion of division. While media can increase the number of viewers, and politicians can win ...

Obama Gets It
Some liberals, like Matthew Yglesias in his book Heads In The Sand, note the insincerity of the administration's stated goal of exporting democracy. Bush, they observe, only targets for democratization countries that challenge American ...

The Call for Social Democracy
It is time for change to a society in which formal equality under the law is made life-giving by promotion of real equality in social power, so that all citizens can participate on equal terms in the burdens, benefits and governance of ...