Democracy Promotion

Reformed Trotskyites confront the "new great game"
Contrary to what many people think, these strategies can be made complimentary, insofar as an American commitment to a liberal international order (rather than an emphasis on aggressive democracy promotion) will also make the deals it ...

Doing overtly what the CIA used to do covertly
Zunes rails against the democracy promotion hypocrisy of Washington and says he works of behalf of democracy, whether it’s in Washington’s interests or not. But he fails to come to grips with the reality that nonviolent democracy ...

Book Reviews: Post–Cold War US Policy in Latin America
... and increasingly used as bases for private security corporations; and “democracy promotion” is used to justify the political and economic undermining of democratically elected leaders who are no longer friendly to US interests. ...

Pakistan suspended by Claudia Sonea
Countries with diverse social, political, and economic backgrounds co-operate within a framework of common values and goals, outlined in the Singapore Declaration and that include the promotion of democracy, human rights, ...

I'm against a boycott
I believe in the passive promotion of Democracy and freedom, as opposed to the direct actions of regime change and even nation-building. As we can plainly see in Iraq, just removing a dictator is not nearly enough to ensure freedom. ...

Why can't we just all agree democracy rules?
Then, does this mean I'm against democracy promotion altogether? Not really. In fact, I think helping the Tibetans out or giving Otpor and other youths movements the means and techniques to overthrow Milosevic-like dictators is a smart ...

The Great Reservations Debate
The concept of democracy is notional. Every aspect of our lives is measured, filtered and assessed via a fine tooth comb and information for us to be assimilated is rehashed. It justifies this as the majority of the population is unable ...

Louise Arbour: Welcome Home
And I believe that in a democracy – any democracy – it is critical for human rights protection that the executive and the legislative branch work hand in hand with the authority of the courts. While she admittedly received a lot of ...

Russia and the West
Earlier in this decade, in the name of “democracy,” a massive joint Euro-American disinformation and electoral manipulation campaign was undertaken to secure the victory of the chosen faction in Geogria and to try and mould the Ukraine ...

Axl Rose continue to defy all odds with potential music video ...
According to sources at Geffen (Rose’s music label) a version of Chinese Democracy has been finished and delivered to the label. But there are still outstanding issues between the singer and the label, not the least of which is a ...