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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; Jordan</title>
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	<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>U.S. should do the right thing: pressure Arab regimes to reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The controversy surrounding Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel obscured a sneering attack on him by the government-sponsored Jordan Times for meeting with democracy and civil society activists, writes James Traub.
The episode illustrates the limitations of the Obama administration’s “anti-Bush” approach to democratic reform in the Arab world, the banality of its new mantra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arab reform &#8211; breaking analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who Will be Arafat&#8217;s True Successor? asks Helga Baumgarten in the latest issue of the Arab Reform Bulletin (also available in Arabic). Issandr Amrani assesses The ElBaradei Effect on Egyptian Politics  and Human Rights Watch’s Joe Stork makes some Suggestions for Act Two for Obama and Human Rights in the Middle East
George Joffe ponders who has The Whole (Libyan) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/arab-reform-breaking-analysis.html</link>
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		<title>U.S. too timid in supporting Arab democracy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are Arab democrats and reformists losing confidence in the Obama administration? A recent spate of articles would suggest so.
The U.S. is committed to using “principled engagement” to promote democracy in the Arab and wider Muslim world, Michael Posner, assistant US secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, said recently.
But the Obama administration “often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/u-s-too-timid-in-supporting-arab-democracy.html</link>
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		<title>Mideast democracy: can&#8217;t be exported or imported,  but &#8211; despite dilemmas &#8211; must be supported</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dilemmas of reconciling security and human rights, stability and reform, and external and internal drivers for change were the dominant themes running through a conference on Middle East democracy this week.
The event was organized by the National Endowment for Democracy in cooperation with the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute, to give some leading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/mideast-democracy-cant-be-exported-or-imported-but-despite-the-dilemmas-must-be-supported.html</link>
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		<title>Events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[November 16, 2009. U.S. Private and Non-U.S. Funding of Media Development, featuring: Anne Nelson, Author, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development; Mary Myers, Author, Funding for Media Development by Major Donors Outside the United States. With comments by: Marjorie Rouse, Internews Network. Moderated by: Marguerite Sullivan, Center for International Media Assistance.
As [...]]]></description>
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