Democracy Promotion

America, Democracy, and the World
'America Abroad' takes a look at America's attempts at democracy promotion around the world.

Barack Obama interview
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 ...

Human Rights and Media Manipulation
In Chile, Aylwin and his party once again received US assistance, this time as part of a ‘democracy promotion’ program channelled through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the US Agency for International Development (AID), ...

McCain’s Incoherent New World Order By Cliff Kincaid McCain’s ...
... tying our economies more closely together, addressing the dangers posed by a revanchist Russia, and institutionalizing our cooperation on issues such as climate change, foreign assistance, and democracy promotion,” declared McCain. ...

Welcome to Kosovo! The World’s Newest Narco State
Considering NATO and the UN’s lofty mandate to bring “peace and stability” to the region through “democracy promotion” and “institution building,” what does the balance sheet reveal? According to regional experts the outlook for Kosovo ...

Jim Repetti's work on wealth, taxes, and Democracy
Viewing equal opportunity for self realization as a design issue leads to the identification of another principle that is foundational—the promotion of democracy. Both political philosophy and empirical literature suggest that equal ...

Cook County Corruption Chronicals. . . . Part 20
One claimant sought a promotion that was given to the claimant’s co-worker. The co-worker was alleged to be backed by political sponsorship. Claimant states that pursuant to union rules, he should have gotten the promotion since he had ...

It is no longer Left vs Right, but pro-Western vs anti-Western
The essence of the division is that the pro-Westerners support the extension of the liberal-democratic order across the globe, through the politics of human rights, promotion of democracy, universal values and interventionism (not ...

That’s some kind of promotion.
Dr. Pepper is offering everyone* in America a free soda if Guns and Roses release Chinese Democracy this year. Huh. Almost makes me care about Chinese Democracy. Almost. *Except Slash and Buckethead.

European Universalism
US Department of State’s account of its promotion of freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe, April 5, 2007. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/shrd/2006/ 5. Patrick Bond and Grace Kwinjeh, “Zimbabwe’s political roller-coaster hits another deep ...