Guinea’s military junta has arrested dozens of leading pro-democracy activists, including attorney Thierno Baldé, head of the Research Institute on Democracy and Rule of Law.
Police arrested activists linked to the Federation of Youth Associations of Guinea …
Some of the media stories highlighted by the Center for International Media Assistance this week:
U.S. resists anti-defamation resolution
Morocco blocks Spain’s El Pais over royal cartoons
Once Seen as Spies, Taiwan Eases China Media Curbs
Just off Freedom Square …
President Dmitri Medvedev’s supporters are urging him to create a parallel power structure to bypass Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s corrupt siloviki and promote Russia’s modernization, Paul Goble reports. The Moscow Institute of Contemporary Development has recommended that he create …
Power-shortages in energy-rich Venezuela, combined with rampant inflation and corruption, rising crime and unemployment, are creating “a worrying picture for chavismo,” a government supporter concedes.
Yet President Hugo Chávez’s response has been characteristically quixotic. “Some people sing in the …
EVENTS
October 29, 2009, 12:15 p.m. “Revitalizing U.S. Democracy Assistance: The Challenge of the U.S. Agency for International Development.”
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) invites you to a discussion featuring Thomas Carothers, vice president of studies at CEIP; …
National Endowment for Democracy: Current Vacancies
Information Technology Services Manager; Assistant Program Officer, Africa; Assistant to the Vice President for Govenment Relations and Public Affairs; Senior Electronic Resources Librarian; Part-Time Web Communications Assistant ; Program Assistant …
Nowhere is corruption’s corrosive effect on development and democracy more evident than in Russia.
“It is difficult to overstate the role of corruption in Russia, which in many ways is the glue that holds together the disparate groups dominating Russia’s …
While Iran’s Green protest movement may have dropped off the news agenda, it is poised for a mass mobilization on November 4 when it is due to hijack the official demonstrations commemorating the 1979 invasion of the American Embassy in …
The Obama administration had downplayed, but not downgraded democracy as a foreign policy objective, Anne-Marie Slaughter, the State Department’s head of policy planning, told Democracy Digest this week.
“Give us time,” was her response to critics who cite changes …
Democracy assistance groups are often cautioned against engaging political Islamists in the Middle East on the grounds that, even when self-professed reformists, they remain closet authoritarians holding unsavory political views. Better to support the region’s beleaguered liberals and democrats, we’re …