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 March 3, 2010
The apparently stable advantage of democracy over autocracy disguises worrying erosion in the quality of democracy, a new analysis suggests.
Democracy has not lost its normative appeal, but even established democracies have experienced “significant setbacks” in the freedoms of assembly, association and the press, as well as declines in political participation, civil liberties and social capital, [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on February 26, 2010
Twenty years after the collapse of communism, the West should not be complacent about the inevitability of democracy, writes André Glucksmann.
The fall of the Berlin Wall did unleash a “solidarity of the shaken”— a politics of democratic solidarity practiced by those “shaken by totalitarian regimes and devoted to opposing them,” he argues.
The peoples extricating themselves [read full story]
Posted in Eastern Europe, Europe, Georgia, Russia, communist regimes, democracy, democratization, dissidents, promoting democracy, solidarity, totalitarianism |
By Michael Allen on February 26, 2010
Georgia may be under pressure from its aggressive northern neighbor, but it must first settle its own internal problems by sticking to democratic governance, writes former national-security adviser and foreign minister Tedo Japaridze:
Free-and-fair elections, even ones recognized by the international community, are only the beginning of the process. Even undemocratic and illiberal countries are capable [read full story]
Posted in Elections, Europe, Georgia |
By Michael Allen on February 18, 2010
The world’s democracy and human rights advocates need to develop genuinely global responses and new approaches to deal with the current authoritarian offensive against fundamental freedoms of association and expression, former Czech President Vaclav Havel told a Washington meeting last night.
There is a compelling moral imperative for solidarity with dissidents within totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, [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]
Posted in Eurasia, Europe, NGOs/Civil society, Russia, authoritarianism, democracy promotion, democracy support, engagement, promoting democracy, rule of law |
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 12, 2010
The global democratic regression appears well-entrenched, a new Freedom House report suggests, as declines in freedom trumped gains for the fourth consecutive year.
Current trends represent the “longest continuous period of deterioration in the nearly 40-year history of Freedom in the World,” according to the democracy watchdog’s annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties.
The dominant [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on December 10, 2009
These are heady days for the transatlantic alliance. European support for President Obama’s decision to intensify the war in Afghanistan reflects the “centrality” of the alliance, Philip H. Gordon told the Council on Foreign Relations last night.
The move provides a “profound insight” into the president’s approach to foreign policy, highlighting the importance of “robust cooperation” [read full story]
Posted in Balkans, Bosnia, European Union, foreign policy |
By Michael Allen on December 8, 2009
The political crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina is back on the international agenda, and the focus of intense European and U.S. diplomatic efforts. The U.S. administration will “sustain and re-energize its commitment to Europe,” Vice President Joseph Biden recently told the Bosnian parliament. “We are back, we will stay.”
But democracy advocates are concerned that speculation about partition [read full story]
Posted in Balkans, Bosnia, Democracy assistance, Elections, European Union, Featured, National Democratic Institute, democracy promotion, democracy support, democratization, promoting democracy, state-building |
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