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By Michael Allen on January 28, 2010
Arab democracy advocates are growing impatient with the Obama administration’s perceived lack of commitment to promoting political reform in the Middle East.
The tentative reforms and opening of political space that accompanied the Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda proved short-lived after electoral gains made by Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood prompted a marked dampening of enthusiasm for [read full story]
Posted in Egypt, Islam and democracy, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, democracy promotion, dissidents, promoting democracy | Tagged Arab democracy, democracy promotion, promoting democracy, promoting democracy in the Middle East |
By Michael Allen on January 26, 2010
Despite the severe challenges it faces, Iraq is better poised than any other Arab state to provide a model of a decently functioning democratic polity for the Middle East, argues Larry Diamond.
“Were Iraq to progress politically, first by democratically electing a new government this year and then by having it function decently and peacefully as [read full story]
Posted in Featured, Iraq, Journal of Democracy, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, authoritarianism, democracy, democracy promotion, promoting democracy | Tagged Arab democracy |
By Michael Allen on November 3, 2009
The Obama administration will use “principled engagement” 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 “occurs from within society” and is “very hard to impose from outside,” he said, insisting that reform was nevertheless essential “both to provide security [read full story]
Posted in International Republican Institute, Iran, Islam/politics, Middle East and North Africa, Morocco, NGOs/Civil society, Tools/technology, democracy promotion, democracy support, dissidents, engagement, media, promoting democracy, protests | Tagged Arab democracy, promoting Arab democracy |
By Michael Allen on July 28, 2009
Check out the new Project on Middle East Democracy report in which Stephen McInerney, POMED’s diligent advocacy director, analyses President Obama’s first annual budget request – and the current House and Senate spending bills – to gauge the administration’s priorities in the Middle East and the consequences for democratic reform. The report will be discussed [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Funding Sources, Islam/politics, Middle East and North Africa, Publications, democracy promotion, foreign policy, promoting democracy | Tagged Arab democracy, Democracy assistance, democracy promotion, Middle East Democracy, promoting democracy, promoting democracy in the Arab world, promoting democracy in the Middle East |
By Michael Allen on July 24, 2009
In the month of June an attractive black American politician visited a university in Cairo and made an astonishing speech. “For 60 years,” said the visitor, “my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in the Middle East—and we achieved neither. Now we are taking a different course. We are supporting [read full story]
Posted in Elections, Islam/politics, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, authoritarianism, corruption, democracy promotion, dictatorships, dissidents, promoting democracy | Tagged Arab democracy, Democracy in the Middle East |
By Michael Allen on June 10, 2009
“As an agent of indigenous and evolutionary change, Arab satellite broadcasting plays a key role in democratization of the region,” according to Dishing Democracy, a PBS documentary. Cultures resistant to radical change mean that any democratic transitions are likely to be result from long-term incremental change, argues analyst Marda Dunsky, but …..
Enabled by satellite broadcast [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Middle East and North Africa, democracy promotion, media, promoting democracy | Tagged Arab democracy, democratic transitions, democratization, Dishing Democracy |
By Michael Allen on June 9, 2009
While Lebanon’s 2009 elections were “not without flaws,” they were a very positive step in the developing democratic institutions, according to the preliminary findings of the National Democratic Institute’s election observation team.
While the poll “ended with multiple contradictory messages” it was nevertheless a “refreshing” change in a region where elections are “typically, bland referendums stage-managed [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Elections, Islam/politics, Lebanon, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, authoritarianism | Tagged Arab democracy, Arab political reform, Hezbollah, Lebanon, National Democratic Institute |
By Michael Allen on June 9, 2009
June 10, 2009. Iran: Expanding Influence, Accelerating Arms Race: Myth or Reality? The Century Foundation, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding will host a symposium to discuss Iran’s growing military and religious influence in the Middle East and Arab leaders’ concern over an ensuing arms race between Israel and Iran. [read full story]
Posted in Africa, Asia, Balkans, China, Cuba, Cuba, Democracy assistance, Eastern Europe, Elections, Eurasia, Europe, Events, Global, Human rights, Islam/politics, Labour/labor unions, Latin America and the Carribean, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Publications, Russia, authoritarianism, democracy promotion, dictatorships, dissidents, foreign policy, promoting democracy | Tagged Antúnez, Arab democracy, Arab liberalism, Arab political reform, Century Foundation, Challenge of a Rising China, European Elections, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Henry Jackson Society, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, iran, Jorge Luis García Pérez, National Endowment for Democracy, prospects for democracy in Cuba, Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows, The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East |
By Michael Allen on June 1, 2009
President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo this week is projected as a speech to the ‘Muslim world’ at a time when the U.S. is confronting Islamic insurgents in two countries, trying to revive the Middle East peace process and shore up relatively ‘moderate’ Arab states against a resurgent Iran and its allies.
Consequently, few commentators expect [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Egypt, Islam/politics, Middle East and North Africa, authoritarianism, democracy promotion, foreign policy, promoting democracy | Tagged Arab democracy, Arab spring, authoritarian, democracy promotion, Democracy Review, Elliott Abrams, foreign policy 'realism, Hala Mustafa, Hisham Kassem, Islamists, Joshua Muravchik, Muslim World, Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East, Obama's Cairo speech, Obama's speech in Cairo, promoting democracy |
By Michael Allen on May 29, 2009
President Barack Obama’s speech in Egypt next week will need to balance strategic and diplomatic considerations with a clear commitment to democratic reform in the region, writes J. Scott Carpenter. But Obama is likely, perhaps even compelled, to prioritize economic and security concerns over democracy promotion, writes William Galston, a board member of the National [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Human rights, Labour/labor unions, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, authoritarianism, democracy promotion, dissidents | Tagged Arab democracy, ayman nour, democracy and human rights strategy, democratic reform, dissidents, Egypt, governance, National Endowment for Democracy, President Barack Obama, promoting democracy, rule of law, William Galston |
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