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 January 5, 2010
A year on from his inauguration, the foreign policy commentariat is assessing President Barack Obama’s record, not least his administration’s approach to promoting democracy and human rights.
Robert Kagan detects a strategic shift from the grand strategy adopted after World War II based on military and economic “preponderance of power” to one reconciled to managing America’s [read full story]
Posted in Burma, China, Cuba, Featured, Global, Human rights, India, Iran, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Russia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, authoritarianism, autocrats, democracy promotion, democracy support, engagement, foreign policy, promoting democracy |
By Michael Allen on December 11, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009- 2 p.m. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF); and the Royal Netherlands Embassy holds a discussion on “international religious freedom,” to commemorate International Human Rights Day.
Featuring Netherlands Ambassador to the United States Renee Jones-Bos; USCIRF Vice Chairman Michael Cromartie; Lynne Davidson, senior adviser to the assistant secretary of [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on November 5, 2009
Our friends at the United Nations Democracy Fund ask us to point out that they are inviting civil society organizations to apply for funding for projects to advance and support democracy:
Project proposals should be submitted on-line between 16 November 2009 and 31 December 2008 here where applicants will find guidelines, FAQs and lessons learned from [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on September 21, 2009
September 21-22. 2009 FPI Forum: Advancing and Defending Democracy.
The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) invites you to the 2009 FPI Forum on September 21 and 22, to discuss how the United States and its allies can advance and defend democracy around the world. Please RSVP by registering at www.foreignpolicyi.org/events.
The Obama administration is facing critical decisions regarding [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on September 10, 2009
Today’s must-read: as heads of state finalize their travel plans for the United Nations General Assembly this autumn, Freedom House’s Christopher Walker identifies an “elite subset” of “leader-for-life regimes” – and their would-be imitators.
“Despite differences in political tradition, culture and history, all of these countries today share at least two critical common features: heavy restrictions [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on August 4, 2009
Has the Obama administration let the pendulum swing too far in reacting to the legacy of George W. Bush? Jacob Weisberg argues that Bush’s idealism and unilateralism prompted Obama’s realism and multilateralism. More specifically, he contends, “Bush’s boycott of North Korea, Cuba, and Iran fed Obama’s eagerness to engage pragmatically with those tyrannies”.
The danger with [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on August 4, 2009
The latest issue of the Journal of Democracy features a special section on China Since Tiananmen, including articles on The Massacre’s Long Shadow by Jean Philippe-Béja, Authoritarian Impermanence by Andrew J. Nathan; A New Rights Consciousness? by Elizabeth J. Perry; The Labor Movement by Ching Kwan Lee and Eli Friedman; Rural Protest by Kevin J. [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on August 3, 2009
The world’s autocrats have devised a new recipe for retaining power, writes Moisés Naím in The Washington Post. The creeping coups use “referendums and constitutional amendments, rather than tanks and assaults on presidential palaces”, notes Naím, editor of Foreign Policy a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy, in today’s must-read article.
The recipe’s ingredients [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on July 20, 2009
The global economic crisis has reportedly prompted renewed interest in Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism. Even the pro-market Center for International Private Enterprise appears to have pulled Das Kapital from the bookshelves, albeit to deliver a trenchant analysis of the new authoritarianism.
Marx claimed to have identified capitalism’s inherent contradiction – between its productive forces and [read full story]
Posted in Analysis, China, Global, Russia, authoritarianism, democracy promotion, economic crisis, promoting democracy | Tagged authoritarianism, Center for International Private Enterprise, global economic crisis, Performance-based legitimacy |
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