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		<title>Venezuela&#8217;s democratic deterioration prompts international concern</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/lac/venezuelas-democratic-deterioration-prompts-international-concern.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy assistance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venezuela’s authoritarian trajectory is prompting international human rights groups to express growing concern about the suppression of dissident voices, particularly independent media and civil society representatives.  
A lawyer who represents the country’s sole independent TV channel yesterday became the latest critic of President Hugo Chavez to be prosecuted.
A group of US senators has warned Secretary of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bipartisanship is dead? Vin Weber award affirms consensus on advancing democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/bipartisanship-is-dead-vin-weber-award-affirms-consensus-on-advancing-democracy-as-work-worth-doing.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/bipartisanship-is-dead-vin-weber-award-affirms-consensus-on-advancing-democracy-as-work-worth-doing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joining the ranks of such luminaries as Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel and the Dalai Lama, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber yesterday received the National Endowment for Democracy’s prestigious Democracy Service Medal for what the organization called &#8220;his commitment to advancing the principles of democracy and human dignity.&#8221;
&#8220;Democracy needs people like Vin Weber who are fervent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The men in green return: military rule 2.0?</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/the-men-in-green-return-military-rule-2-0.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/the-men-in-green-return-military-rule-2-0.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America and the Carribean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backsliding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arturo Valenzuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decline of democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joshua Kurlantzick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelby Leighton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=6212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the forty years up to 1990, the world witnessed more than 100 coups or coup attempts. Yet subsequent years saw a precipitate drop, and there have only been eight coups since 2005.
Between 1930 and 1980, 40% of governmental change in Latin America came through military coups, according to Arturo Valenzuela, formerly director of Georgetown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia &#8220;in the vanguard&#8221; of region&#8217;s anti-democratic backlash</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/eurasia/russia-in-the-vanguard-of-regions-anti-democratic-backlash.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Azerbaijan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel B Baer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing democratic regression in the non-Baltic former Soviet Union presents a serious challenge to policymakers, according to an Obama administration official. Russia is &#8220;in the vanguard&#8221; of an anti-democratic backlash that keeps some 221 million citizens under authoritarian rule.
Policymakers don’t pay as much attention to anti-democratic backsliding as they might for both psychological and methodological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: putsches are so passé (aren&#8217;t they?)</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/putsches-are-so-passe.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/putsches-are-so-passe.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam/politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backsliding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ergenekon affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fethullah Gülen]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=5699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Forget coups &#8211; democracy is much more fun. Putsches are “such an uncivilized way of settling scores, carrying out grudges and asserting self-interest in the name of being right writes Andrew Finkel, a former Reagan-Fascell fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy.
He is writing on the 50th anniversary of Turkey’s first post-war coup, but other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A year after Cairo: backtracking on democracy?</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/a-year-after-cairo-backtracking-on-democracy.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/a-year-after-cairo-backtracking-on-democracy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 19:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Brumberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Has U.S. Engagement Improved the Prospects for Reform in the Arab World?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hisham Kassem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohamed ElBaradei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muslim brotherhood]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=5563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of Egyptian reformers greeted Mohamed ElBaradei’s return to Cairo’s airport earlier this year, anticipating that the former head of the United Nations atomic-energy agency could present a serious challenge to President Hosni Mubarak or the dynastic succession of his son, Gamal.
But some Egyptian democracy advocates remain unimpressed.
ElBaradei’s campaign is “a fiasco,” said Hisham Kassem, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zhovtis case shows Kazakh institutions&#8217; failure to deliver</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/eurasia/zhovtis-case-shows-kazakh-institutions-failure-to-deliver.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/eurasia/zhovtis-case-shows-kazakh-institutions-failure-to-deliver.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eurasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Endowment for Democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A senior OSCE parliamentarian has met with imprisoned human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis at a prison colony in Ust-Kamenogorsk.
The Kazakh government has reportedly blocked details of the visit from appearing on the website of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which it currently chairs.
“Mr. Zhovtis was in good condition but disappointed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US must support democratic option at Egypt&#8217;s &#8216;critical turning point&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/us-must-support-democratic-option-at-egypts-critical-turning-point.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/us-must-support-democratic-option-at-egypts-critical-turning-point.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day after peaceful democracy advocates were beaten by baton-wielding security forces in Cairo, a bipartisan group has called on the U.S. administration to help reverse Egypt’s authoritarian regression.  
The rally was organized by the April 6 movement to demand constitutional reform, free and fair elections and a lifting of the 30-year-old emergency laws. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taliban deal will marginalize Afghan civil society</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/taliban-deal-will-marginalize-afghan-civil-society.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/taliban-deal-will-marginalize-afghan-civil-society.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prospect of a deal with the Taliban threatens to “victimize” Afghan democrats and civil society, and is especially threatening to women, a Washington meeting heard today.
An accommodation with the “so-called moderate Taliban will automatically sideline and silence Afghan civil society and women’s groups,” said Farishta Sakhi, a leading activist with the Women’s Activities and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moscow attacks confirm &#8216;failure of Putinism&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/backlash/5196.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/backlash/5196.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backlash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authoritarianism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Stoner-Weiss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magomed Mutsolgov]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Moscow subway bombings provide further evidence of the failure of Putinism, writes Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, deputy director of Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
“The democratic rollback he pursued has produced even less personal security for Russians than even the weak and unconsolidated democracy of the 1990s under his predecessor, Boris [...]]]></description>
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