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		<title>Preparing for a democratic mañana in Cuba</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/lac/preparing-for-a-democratic-manana-in-cuba.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[José Azel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cuba’s democratic opposition is not yet a viable alternative to communist rule, nor are the island’s communist authorities prepared for the challenges of inheriting the Castro brothers’ failed state.  But both sides could be “nudged” into making the adjustments required to effect a “perfect” democratic transition, writes the author of a new book on post-communist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open letter to Lula</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/lac/open-letter-to-lula.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/lac/open-letter-to-lula.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 15:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a rising labor union leader, Lula helped give Brazil’s transition to democracy “a final, decisive push,” writes Denis MacShane, a British Labour MP. He enjoyed significant international support as the Brazilian labor movement, along with independent unions in Poland, South Africa, and South Korea, “helped open the way to the great democratization of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats and autocrats: the best lack all conviction, while the worst&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/eurasia/the-best-lack-all-conviction-while-the-worst.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/eurasia/the-best-lack-all-conviction-while-the-worst.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backlash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Many democracies have effectively abandoned human rights advocacy just as the world’s autocracies are becoming more assertive in promoting anti-democratic values and interests, writes Joshua Kurlantzick, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
In the United States, he writes, “the age of global human-rights advocacy has collapsed, giving way to an era of realism unseen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s shifting networks and fissures forestall sustainable suppression?</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/keyarticles/irans-shifting-networks-and-fissures-forestall-sustainable-suppression.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/keyarticles/irans-shifting-networks-and-fissures-forestall-sustainable-suppression.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam/politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion and Democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran’s opaque political system has become arguably even less transparent given the continuing turmoil that has seen a fracturing of the ruling elite and the emergence of a diverse and pluralistic Green Opposition. Now a new must-read RAND study provides an illuminating guide to the Mullahs, Guards and Bonyads that comprise the vital core of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In search of the gulag</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/keyarticles/in-search-of-the-gulag.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-writing history is an essential part of Russia’s drive to restore its lost status, but democracy activists have questioned whether the Kremlin’s History Commission is really needed to discover the truth about its Soviet past.
&#8220;There are lots of debates in our party, United Russia,” says pro-Kremlin analyst Sergei Markov. &#8230;..“Regarding Stalinism, there are some things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why China Won&#8217;t Rule the World &#8211; and other must-reads</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/democracy-promotion/why-china-wont-rule-the-world-and-other-must-reads.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/democracy-promotion/why-china-wont-rule-the-world-and-other-must-reads.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minxin Pei’s Newsweek article on Why China Won&#8217;t Rule the World is one of Global Europe’s must-reads of the week, alongside President Obama’s remarks at the acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony; The real stakes in Afghanistan by Robin Wright; and Carnegie’s Karim Sadjadpour on Engagement with Iran.
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		<title>Democracy the casualty of &#8216;realist&#8217; foreign policy turn</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/democracy-the-casualty-of-realist-foreign-policy-turn.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/democracy-the-casualty-of-realist-foreign-policy-turn.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backlash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has the Obama administration lost sight of the moral dimension of foreign policy? Have democratic values been set aside in over-reacting to what some perceive as the tainted legacy of the Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda?  
Human rights and democracy advocates have criticized perceived policy shifts on human rights in China, Iran’s Green opposition movement and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Must-reads of the week</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/democracy-assistance/must-reads-of-the-week.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/democracy-assistance/must-reads-of-the-week.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[color revolutions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why buy those weekly news digests like The Week when over at Global Europe, Uli Speck has started a very helpful compilation of foreign policy must-reads of the week?
This week’s offerings are Russia: Very Little to Celebrate — By Vladimir Ryzhkov, Moscow Times; The Legacy of 1989 Is Still Up for Debate — By Steven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monitoring Arab reform</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/keyarticles/monitoring-arab-reform.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/keyarticles/monitoring-arab-reform.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Egypt’s Islamist opposition is facing leadership challenges, writes Ibrahim el Houdaiby. Increasingly influential Salafist/Qutbi forces are striving to marginalize relatively moderate figures like Essam el-Erian and Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh.
Obsessed with efforts to engineer Gamal Mubarak’s succession to his father’s presidency, the mainstream media is missing the emergence of a new political force in Egypt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1989 &#8211; catalyst for new authoritarian learning</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/1989-catalyst-for-new-authoritarian-learning.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/1989-catalyst-for-new-authoritarian-learning.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that Tiananmen happened in China is one reason it did not happen in Europe, writes Timothy Garton-Ash. “Both opposition and reform communist leaders saw what could happen if it came to a violent confrontation, and redoubled their efforts to avoid it,” he writes.
However, the influence then reversed as the Communist Party in Beijing [...]]]></description>
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