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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; Iraq</title>
	<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog</link>
	<description>Democracy Digest provides news, analysis and information on democracy promotion and related matters. The Digest is produced at the National Endowment for Democracy.</description>
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		<title>&#8220;One last, best chance&#8221; for Iraqi democracy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The long-standing political impasse since Iraq’s March elections is threatening to spark a renewal of sectarian violence.
The United States and its UN partners must seize that moment to give Iraq “one last, best chance to develop into a stable democracy,” writes Kenneth Pollack, director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/one-last-best-chance-for-iraqi-democracy.html</link>
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		<title>Denying Arab democracy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The term Empty Quarter refers to a desolate stretch of land in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula,” writes Egyptian dissident Saad Eddin Ibrahim. “More recently it is aptly used as a metaphor to refer to the quarter of the Muslim world that is still undemocratic.”
Recent elections in Iraq provide just one indicator that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/denying-arab-democracy.html</link>
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		<title>Interactive map of Iraq&#8217;s election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RFE/RL&#8217;s Alex Mayer has produced an interactive map of Iraq&#8217;s election results that can be sorted by poll results, gender, turnout, political party, province and votes cast by the Iraqi diaspora. Check it out.
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		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/interactive-map-of-iraqs-election.html</link>
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		<title>Violent backlash could greet attempt to &#8216;hijack&#8217; Iraqi democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iraq&#8217;s interim prime minister has formally appealed the results of this month’s parliamentary elections.
&#8220;I want to point out that there was confusion in the election results,&#8221; Nuri al-Maliki told a Baghdad press conference. &#8220;We will wait to see what the legal and judicial institutions say about this issue. Everyone should be bound by the decision [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/violent-backlash-could-greet-attempt-to-hijack-iraqi-democracy.html</link>
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		<title>Democracy events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, March 22 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Democracy in Ukraine: Are We There Yet? &#8211; , Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. – Featuring Nadia Diuk, Senior Director, Europe &#38; Eurasia, National Endowment for Democracy.  Seating for this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/democracy-events-16.html</link>
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		<title>Iraq: region&#8217;s &#8216;natural hegemon&#8217; can show that freedom provides security and prosperity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The two front-runners following Iraq’s national election have both claimed victory even though the authorities have yet to announce the results.
The electoral commission will reveal partial results of the parliamentary elections on Wednesday, providing an insight into the balance of forces that will determine the shape of the next government.
The coalitions led by the Prime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/iraq-regions-natural-hegemon-can-show-that-freedom-provides-security-and-prosperity.html</link>
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		<title>Huh? An unpredictable election in the Arab world?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend will see something rare: an election in the Arab world in which the winner can’t be predicted in advance. Aside from the predictably confessional alignments of Lebanese elections, Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary poll is the region’s only election where there is a real prospect of political power changing hands.
The campaigns have been genuinely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/huh-an-unpredictable-election-in-the-arab-world.html</link>
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		<title>Democracy events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, March 4, 2010 – 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM – The Iraqi Elections &#38; the Changing Politico-Security Environment in Iraq &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/democracy-events-15.html</link>
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		<title>A Lebanon-style sectarian democracy the best Iraq can hope for?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Even if you’re well known, you have to campaign,” the instructor began in an introductory course intended to teach what many Americans begin to learn as schoolchildren in their first vote for class president. She went on to caution them about what many of those same Americans often forget by the time they enter professional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/a-lebanon-style-sectarian-democracy-the-best-iraq-can-hope-for.html</link>
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		<title>Arab Reform Bulletin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest edition of the must-read Arab Reform Bulletin includes Husam Tammam on Egypt’s New Brotherhood Leadership: Implications and Limits of Change and Brian Katulis explains why Iraq’s Elections Highlight a Gap in U.S. Policy. 
This is the first issue of the new-look ARB which will now publish 1-2 articles weekly instead of several features [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/arab-reform-bulletin-2.html</link>
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