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By Michael Allen on March 25, 2009
“Is it really possible that in a Democratic administration the championship of human rights and the promotion of democracy will no longer figure conspicuously in the foreign policy of the United States?,” asks The New Republic’s Leon Wieseltier. Or is idealism in foreign policy now so 2003?
Like other observers, he cautions against a wholesale and [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Global, Human rights, NGOs/Civil society, democracy promotion, foreign policy, promoting democracy | Tagged Democracy assistance, democracy promotion, foreign policy, Global, Human rights, NGOs/Civil society, promoting democracy |
By Michael Allen on March 23, 2009
The Internet has had a polarizing effect on democracies, argues Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, who is scheduled to join the Obama administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
He laments the decline of newspapers, magazines, television, and radio which play a vital role as “general-interest intermediaries”, and believes a healthy democracy requires not just free [read full story]
Posted in Global, Tools/technology, media | Tagged Global, media, Tools/technology |
By Michael Allen on March 16, 2009
The United States should make democracy consolidation a principal strategic objective in order to prevent a “reverse wave” of state implosions, a new report suggests. The Obama administration should ditch the “toxic” concept of democracy promotion with its implication of coercive democratization and instead create greater incentives for democratic reform, according to an analysis from [read full story]
Posted in Backlash, Democracy assistance, Global, democracy promotion, foreign policy, promoting democracy | Tagged Backlash, Democracy assistance, democracy promotion, foreign policy, Global, promoting democracy |
By Michael Allen on February 27, 2009
Check out this entertaining trailer for the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, an official cultural event of the Czech EU presidency, which takes place in Prague from 11th to 19th March. A selection of the movies will then be shown in Brussels and Washington, D.C.
One World reports:
In 2009, the Czech Republic and [read full story]
Posted in Europe, Events, Global, Human rights, National Endowment for Democracy | Tagged Europe, Events, Global, Human rights, National Endowment for Democracy |
By Michael Allen on February 18, 2009
Potentially encouraging news for democracy advocates is emerging from the State Department, if The New Republic’s Michael Crowley is to be believed. He quotes the Brookings Institution’s Strobe Talbott suggesting that Hillary Clinton is “likely to elevate the oft-neglected posts of undersecretary for democracy and global affairs and undersecretary for economic affairs (the latter post [read full story]
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By Michael Allen on February 13, 2009
February 17, 2009. 10:30 a.m. – The National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED) Center for International Media Assistance and the Africa Program, the Center for Democracy and Development at the University of Massachusetts, and Mano River Media Forum/Democracy Media hold a workshop on “Support for Independent Media in Liberia’s New Democracy”. NED, 1025 F Street NW, [read full story]
Posted in Africa, China, Events, Global, Latin America and the Carribean, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy | Tagged Africa, china, Events, Global, Latin America and the Carribean, National Endowment for Democracy, NGOs/Civil society |
By Michael Allen on February 11, 2009
Democracy assistance should target transitional democracies, particularly strengthening representative institutions, a Washington meeting heard yesterday. “Don’t pull the rug” from emerging fragile democracies – especially in sub-Saharan Africa – while providing assistance to non-democracies lie Ethiopia, said Representative David Price (D-NC), co-chair of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (H-DAC).
Institutions, not individuals should be the focus as [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Global, National Endowment for Democracy, democracy promotion, foreign policy, promoting democracy | Tagged bipartisan, Democracy assistance, democracy promotion, foreign policy, Global, National Endowment for Democracy, promoting democracy |
By Michael Allen on February 11, 2009
The political consequences of the global financial crisis remain unclear, but established liberal market states appear better placed to prevail than authoritarian regimes and fledgling democracies. Russia is the biggest loser of the crisis thus far, according to a must-read analysis by Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations, lacking the institutional resilience [read full story]
Posted in China, Global, Russia, authoritarianism, economic crisis | Tagged authoritarianism, china, economic crisis, Global, resilient democracies, Russia |
By Michael Allen on February 10, 2009
Assistance to young democracies during their difficult years greatly increases their chances of success, new research suggests. ”Difficult initial conditions do not necessarily mean democratization is doomed,” argues Ethan Kapstein, co-author of The Fate of Young Democracies.
Examining emerging democracies against a backdrop of an anti-democratic backlash and deteriorating quality of democracy even within free [read full story]
Posted in Backlash, Democracy assistance, Global | Tagged Backlash, Democracy assistance, Global, young democracies |
By Michael Allen on February 9, 2009
Defense and diplomacy are necessary but insufficient priorities of US foreign policy, Vice President Joe Biden said this past weekend. The new administration will place see a renewed emphasis on development and democracy, “two of the most powerful weapons in our collective arsenals”, he told the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy.
Some observers contend that [read full story]
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