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By Michael Allen on February 4, 2010
“If the U.S. thought relations between the United States and Iran were strained after the Mossadeq coup, just wait until Washington betrays the Green movement.”
Those cautionary words from an Iranian activist were heard on Capitol Hill yesterday at a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing addressing the issue of how the United States can best support [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Featured, Iran, Islam/politics, Middle East and North Africa, National Endowment for Democracy, Soft power, democracy support, dictatorships, foreign policy, promoting democracy, protests, sanctions | Tagged Green movement, Iran Democracy Fund, J. Scott Carpenter, Washington Institute for Near East Policy. |
By Michael Allen on February 3, 2010
Iran’s Green movement must broaden its demands to expand support amongst the country’s poor and working families, says opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The movement has been accused of being unrepresentative, and arguably too focused on constitutional issues that hold little appeal beyond university students and the middle class.
“The fate of the movement should be tied [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Elections, Human rights, Iran, Islam/politics, authoritarianism, democracy support, dissidents, foreign policy, promoting democracy, protests, solidarity | Tagged democracy promotion, Green movement, green revolution, labor unions, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mohsen Sazegara, obama administration, Obama and Iran, promoting democracy, trade unions |
By Michael Allen on February 3, 2010
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad clearly won last June’s Presidential election, even securing majority support from women and Iranians who view Western news media, while Green protest movement is demonstrably at odds with the country’s mainstream public opinion.
Large majorities of Iranians – including most supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi – accept the legitimacy of clerical rule [read full story]
Posted in Analysis, Elections, Featured, Iran, Islam/politics, authoritarianism, protests |
By Michael Allen on February 1, 2010
Two leading opposition figures have called on Green movement supporters to mobilize on February 11, the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. The move casts doubt on recent suggestions that relatively moderate elements within the regime and opposition were ready to reach an accommodation or pact to end the continuing political turmoil.
The emergence of Iran’s [read full story]
Posted in Featured, Iran, Islam/politics, democracy support, democratization, promoting democracy, protests | Tagged Green movement |
By Michael Allen on January 29, 2010
Further to this post, Ahmed Rashid examines the issues behind A Deal with the Taliban.
Other interesting weekend reading, courtesy of Global Europe, includes: An Israeli attack on Iran? Don’t hold your breath by Michael Young, The National; Israeli-Palestinian talks may resume, but what for? by Yossi Alpher, Daily Star; An Asian Century? Not So Fast [read full story]
Posted in European Union, foreign policy | Tagged Asian Century, China's peaceful rise, Deal with the Taliban, Global Europe, Israeli attack on Iran, Israeli-Palestinian talks |
By Michael Allen on January 25, 2010
The European Union’s strategy for supporting democracy in its neighborhood must address two different clusters of states, a new report suggests. But a reluctance to extend the prospect of EU accession has taken the momentum out of the gravity model of democratization.
“In the last five years, there has been a virulent intellectual debate about the [read full story]
Posted in Azerbaijan, Backlash, Balkans, Belarus, Bosnia, European Union, Featured, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, authoritarianism, autocrats, color revolutions, democracy promotion, democracy support, democratization, emerging democracies, promoting democracy | Tagged democratization, European, promoting democracy, Supporting Democracy |
By Katherine Bannor on January 25, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010- 12 noon. Ukraine After the First Round of Elections. Discussion with David Kramer, senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. The Woodrow Wilson Center: One Wilson Plaza; Reagan Building; 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW. Full details at 202-691-4000, or http://www.wilsoncenter.org.
Monday, January 25, 2010- 6p.m. The Obama Administration’s [read full story]
Posted in Analysis, Backlash, Democracy assistance, Elections, Events, Human rights, Islam and democracy, Islam/politics, NGOs/Civil society, National Democratic Institute, National Endowment for Democracy, Zimbabwe, authoritarianism, autocrats, backsliding, color revolutions, communist regimes, corruption, democracy, democracy and development, democracy promotion, democracy support, democratization, dictatorships, dissidents, emerging democracies, foreign policy, governance, promoting democracy, protests | Tagged Concertacion, democratic consolidation, Participatory Institutions, State Capacity, tibet |
By Michael Allen on January 21, 2010
The US Government will fund and facilitate innovative approaches to expanding internet freedom and access, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this morning. Activists like those in Iran’s Green movement were “redefining how technology is used to spread truth and expose injustice”.
Just as samizdat literature undermined communism – “words that pierced the concrete and concertina [read full story]
Posted in Backlash, Blogs, China, Democracy assistance, Egypt, Featured, Human rights, Iran, NGOs/Civil society, Tools/technology, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, authoritarianism, autocrats, corruption, democracy, democracy and development, democracy promotion, dissidents, freedom of expression, media, promoting democracy, solidarity | Tagged Internet freedom |
By Michael Allen on January 20, 2010
Authoritarian regimes have deliberately targeted and intensified attacks against human rights and democracy advocates over the past year, according to the annual review of Human Rights Watch. [read full story]
Posted in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Blogs, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Human rights, Kenya, National Endowment for Democracy, Regions, Sri Lanka, authoritarianism, democracy, democracy promotion, democracy support, dissidents | Tagged Afghanistan, authoritarian, azerbaijan, burundi, china, democracy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, dissidents, Egypt, ethiopia, human rights watch, Kenya, National Endowment for Democracy, NGOs, non-governmental organizations, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, turkmenistan, uzbekistan |
By Michael Allen on January 15, 2010
January 19, 2010- 5p.m. Emerging Leaders for Democracy Roundtable. In the fall of 2009, The Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) hosted conferences in Amman, Beirut, and Cairo to examine the political dynamics in the Middle East. Participants sought to develop recommendations for U.S. foreign policy initiatives for encouraging meaningful democratic political reform.
At the event, [read full story]
Posted in Backlash, Democracy assistance, Islam and democracy, Islam/politics, Journal of Democracy, NGOs/Civil society, National Democratic Institute, National Endowment for Democracy, authoritarianism, autocrats, backsliding, color revolutions, communist regimes, corruption, democracy, democracy and development, democracy promotion, democracy support, democratization, dissidents, media, promoting democracy |
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