Islamic movements in the Arab world should undertake a “radical intellectual revision” and abandon the “dogmatic” idea of a religious state, leading Arab analysts argue.
“Any Islamic state would have a problem with democracy because Islamists seek to …
A year on from the abortive Saffron Revolution, Burma’s military junta has launched pre-emptive cyber-attacks against exiled dissident groups and handed down severe prison sentences on labor rights whistle-blowers. The protests climaxed when up to 100,000 people marched through Rangoon …
As Angola’s President José Eduardo dos Santos promised, his country’s first elections since 1992 set an example to Africa. “They have provided the world with a master-class on how to hold apparently democratic elections, annihilate the opposition and regress …
Ron Asmus, executive director of the German Marshall Fund’s Brussels-based Transatlantic Center, supports the call for an independent commission of investigate in to the causes of the recent Russo-Georgian conflict. But he is clear about which narrative he finds …
“Latin America’s democratic regimes are still afflicted by many shortcomings because institutions are not as strong as they should be,” Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said yesterday. Her views echo those aired in a seminar on the State of Democracy …
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has undermined democracy by packing the courts, curbing labor rights, attacking civil society and threatening freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch reports. As if to confirm the report’s veracity, the regime responded by expelling the group’s …
American citizens are showing little appetite for isolationism, according to a new poll from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Some 76 per cent of respondents consider democracy assistance to other nations to be a “very important” or …
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China is richer than before, but its wealth relies on duplicating and emulating foreign …
A stalemate over the allocation of Cabinet portfolios is threatening to undermine the fragile power-sharing deal reached last week between Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, and Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Fundamentally, we have a …