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By Michael Allen on March 15, 2010
Tuesday, March 16 – 10:00 am to 11:30 a.m. Disappearing God Gap: Religion’s Role in the 2008 Presidential Elections and Beyond – The Brookings Institution, Saul/Zilkha Rooms, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC – In a new book by religion and politics experts Corwin Smidt and Kevin den Dulk, The Disappearing God Gap? (Oxford University [read full story]
Posted in Africa, Analysis, Asia, China, Democracy assistance, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Elections, Eurasia, Europe, Events, Fragile States, Global, Human rights, Iran, Iraq, Islam and democracy, Islam/politics, Latin America and the Carribean, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Pakistan, Regions, Religion and Democracy, Russia, Ukraine, Women, Zimbabwe, accountability, authoritarianism, autocrats, color revolutions, democracy, democracy and development, democracy promotion, democracy support, democratic reform, democratization, dictatorships, dissidents, economic crisis, emerging democracies, foreign policy, freedom of expression, governance, legislatures, media, promoting democracy, religious freedom, rule of law, sanctions, solidarity | Tagged Analyzing the Political Elite of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Democracy in Ukraine, Freedom House, Governance in the West Bank, Internet freedom, Islamism and Neo-secularism, Michael Posner, Obama Administration’s Russia Policy, Politics, post-Orange Revolution transition, radicalization, Russian Anti-Americanism, Security and Human Rights in the North Caucasus, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, Transparency, Why There Is No ‘European Islam’, Zimbabwe |
By Michael Allen on March 3, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010 – 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM – The Iraqi Elections & the Changing Politico-Security Environment in Iraq – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. – Featuring keynote speaker Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, this one day conference presents a number of panels and experts discussing key issues of security and [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on February 12, 2010
Democracy assistance practitioners tend to be wary of regime change.
Recent experience, not least during the Third Wave of democratic transitions, suggests that sustainable democratization is more of a process than an event and the disappointing trajectory of some color revolutions has further fed skepticism of such dramatic ruptures.
So it’s understandable that some observers have [read full story]
Posted in Analysis, Backlash, Human rights, Iran, Islam/politics, Middle East and North Africa, color revolutions, dissidents, protests |
By Michael Allen on February 2, 2010
Burma VJ has been nominated for an Oscar in the 2010 Academy Awards. The film is considered to be a front-runner in the race for the Best Documentary.
The documentary features the work of an underground network of video journalists which smuggled footage of Burma’s 2007 saffron revolution to the outside world. The network is supported [read full story]
Posted in National Endowment for Democracy, color revolutions, democracy support, promoting democracy, protests | Tagged Burma VJ, Democratic Voice of Burma, National Endowment for Democracy, saffron revolution |
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]
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By Michael Allen on January 19, 2010
The eventual winner of Ukraine’s presidential election will now be determined in a second round run-off on February 7 between Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko.
President Victor Yushchenko, the principal leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution, placed fifth as voters held him responsible for the subsequent political paralysis and economic crisis. Nevertheless, notes one analyst, he [read full story]
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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]
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By Michael Allen on January 15, 2010
Will Sunday’s election mark the latest stage in Ukraine’s Road from Democracy and signal the sad end to the Orange Revolution? If so, the results of what some anticipate as an anti-Orange election will be at least partly due to the influence of the country’s increasingly powerful oligarchs, not least Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man.
Akhmetov [read full story]
Posted in Elections, Hat tip: Center for International Media Assistance., National Endowment for Democracy, Ukraine, color revolutions, freedom of expression, media |
By Michael Allen on January 14, 2010
The Obama administration should take a harsher line with Tehran, says a former State Department official who formerly advocated closer engagement with the regime. “There is no point in being respectful to a regime which has lost the respect of its own people,” said Ray Takeyh, a Council on Foreign Relations expert on Iran.
He credited [read full story]
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