Democracy Promotion

Is it Any of Our Business? The Dilemma of Democracy Promotion in ...
Amb. Jeremy Kinsman, former Canadian ambassador to the EU; Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School;Amb. Robert Hutchings, Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School; former...

Selling Democracy – De Lux Model with Double-Standards Built In
It is now clear that in Dubya’s world, counter-terrorism trumps democracy promotion, rhetoric notwithstanding. And it is precisely that juxtaposition of goals that now finds us in bed with most of the world’s most repressive regimes ...

William Fisher: Selling Democracy - De Lux Model with Double ...
But the democracy-promotion mantra didn't start with George W. Bush. It started as long ago as Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. It was significantly ratcheted up during the Cold War administration of President Ronald Reagan (1981-89) ...

From Pinochet to ‘Human Rights’ in China
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), ...

Links February 27th to March 19th
... The Gaza Bombshell: vanityfair.com - How the US funded Dahlan’s coup attempt against Hamas; Overcoming ‘Fitna’ - Former US democracy promotion chief on Egypt’s role towards Dutch film / Danish cartoons; Wal-Mart: Arab-America?s ...

Many See McCain As A Liberal
... 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. ...

Obama's Foreign Policy Team: Dignity v. Democracy
This ability to see the world from different perspectives informs what the Obama team hopes will replace the Iraq War mind-set: something they call dignity promotion. I don't think anyone in the foreign-policy community has as much an ...

Munsil on McCain for Prez… pimping Johnny-boy
... a common energy policy, creating a transatlantic common market tying our economies more closely together,…, and institutionalizing our cooperation on issues such as climate change, foreign assistance, and democracy promotion.” ...

Can We Return The Gift?
Its expression is found across a diverse political spectrum: from the neo-cons’ grand, if likely flawed [bold mine-DL], vision of a militant promotion of democracy, to lofty liberal ideas finding new form in the US in ventures such as ...

Axl Rose Comments on Dr. Pepper for Chinese Democracy
Commented Axl Rose in a statement: We are surprised and very happy to have the support of Dr. Pepper with our album, 'Chinese Democracy', as for us this came totally out of the blue. If there is any involvement with this promotion by ...