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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; Morocco</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>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>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/events-15.html</link>
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		<title>Promoting Arab democracy still on agenda &#8211; using engagement and digital technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration will use &#8220;principled engagement&#8221; to promote democracy in the Arab and wider Muslim world, said Michael Posner, assistant US secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Change &#8220;occurs from within society&#8221; and is &#8220;very hard to impose from outside,&#8221; he said, insisting that reform was nevertheless essential &#8220;both to provide security [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/promoting-arab-democracy-still-on-agenda-using-engagement-and-digital-technology.html</link>
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		<title>Promoting democracy &#8211; the evolutionary approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz also invokes the admonition to &#8220;do no harm&#8221; when it comes to democracy promotion. But he denies that a pragmatic, evolutionary approach amounts to realism, even in the Middle East, where compelling strategic interests compete with promoting democracy as a policy imperative:
The goal should not be revolution, but rather evolutionary change. That&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/promoting-democracy-the-evolutionary-approach.html</link>
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		<title>Promoting democracy in the Middle East? &#8211; first do no harm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration was “right to avoid emotionally satisfying but pointless… rhetorical interventions” in the Iranian events of June 2009, argues Middle East analyst Gregory Gause. “It should be equally poised in rejecting calls …. to make democracy promotion a major pillar of American policy” in the region, he contends.
Gause is dismissive of pundits and [...]]]></description>
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