By Michael Allen on March 4, 2010
National Endowment for Democracy
Currently available opportunities include: Administrative Assistant – CIMA, Program Assistant – Asia, Program Assistant – Europe, Program Officer for Asia, Program Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean, Database/Web Developer, and Senior Director of Finance. Further details here.
International Republican Institute
Currently available DC-based opportunities include: Online Communications Specialist, Deputy Press Secretary, Program Assistant [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on February 25, 2010
The most significant source of dispute between Russia and the West today is not Iran or Afghanistan but Europe’s contested neighborhood, writes Ron Asmus, executive director of the Transatlantic Centre of the German Marshall Fund.
The democratic West’s “moral and strategic vision of the 1990s has exhausted itself and come to a grinding halt after the [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on February 22, 2010
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 [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on February 4, 2010
Russia provides a challenging “test case” for the Obama administration’s approach to promoting democracy while engaging authoritarian regimes, a Washington meeting heard this week.
While President Dmitry Medvedev was ostensibly committed to modernization, Russia needs “broader institutional changes, including rule of law”, said Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on February 2, 2010
Leading politicians are joining with democracy and civil society groups in calling on authorities in Kazakhstan to release jailed human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis.
His case was raised on Capitol Hill today at a hearing on Kazakhstan’s controversial leadership of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) featuring the country’s Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev.
The [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on January 29, 2010
The U.S. today rejected Russian proposals for new European security architecture, dismissing the notion of regional spheres of influence. But a senior adviser to President Obama insisted that the administration remains committed both to promoting democracy and engaging the Kremlin.
“We are continuing the enterprise we began at the end of the Cold War to expand [read full story]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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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