Democracy Promotion

Food riots: the new case for democracy promotion
I normally leave blogging on scarcity issues to the other, better-informed contributors to this blog, but this week’s food riots in Haiti have brought UN peacekeepers face-to-face with rising prices, so I can’t keep my head that deep in ...

NED etc.: The CIA’s successors and collaborators (Le Monde ...
He later made an identical speech to the European parliament during the conference, “Democracy Promotion: the European Way”. According to William Blum, the NED’s basic philosophy is that societies “are best served under a system of free ...

Insights Into Obama's Foreign Policy - II
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 ...

Barack Hussein Obama !!
In December 2006, President Bush signed into law the “Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act,” marking the first federal legislation to be enacted with Obama as its primary sponsor. ...

Bits and bobs
That is why I am uneasy at a definition of the left as simply, the extension of the liberal-democratic order across the globe, through the politics of human rights, promotion of democracy, universal values and interventionism (not ...

I’d like to change the topic, please
At SIPA, where I did some grad work in international affairs, folks were fond of talking about “sequencing” for big-scale democracy-promotion or development projects. I wish I had paid a little more attention during those conversations, ...

She Escaped Strife, but Embraced Those Scarred by It
The event grew out of the Vital Voices Democracy Initiative, created in 1997 by Clinton and former secretary of state Madeleine Albright to make the promotion of women’s causes a US foreign policy goal. In an interview Friday, ...

Hunger and Despair in Haiti
Global Dasboard - 'Food riots: The case for democracy promotion'. Haiti Innovation - Haitian blog article looking at the country's food crisis. Sunday Herald - Lengthy article highlighting the possible looming global food emergency ...

Full Text of Raja Nazrin Shah's Speech at the Conference of ...
We are now at a critical time in our nation’s history, one where the institutions of state – indeed, the foundations of our democracy – which we have built up since Independence, are under scrutiny. The just concluded 12th General ...

China Syndrome
China is an autocratic tyranny where even to call for democracy can land you in jail or primed for re-education. And the Olympic movement by awarding Beijing the games, has conferred a spurious respectability on the Communist regime. ...