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		<title>Debating &#8216;moderate&#8217; Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Akbar Ahmed]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tawfik Hamid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The debate over Islam, democracy and modernity continues in this insightful Wall Street Journal symposium on moderate Islam. 
Muslims need not discard their beliefs and traditions in order to embrace pluralism and modernity, writes Anwar Ibrahim, opposition leader in Malaysia.
Holding fast to the principles of democracy, freedom and human rights, these hundreds of millions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton defends civil society from &#8216;critical threat to democracy&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anne Appelbaum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authoritarian regimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Gershman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defending Civil Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has used a landmark speech to the Community of Democracies to highlight “the steel vise” with which governments are restricting civil society and announce a fund to help activist groups to combat the growing crackdown.
The speech &#8211; described by aides as her most significant address during a four-day tour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama visit highlights democracy in world’s most important, least known country</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/obama-visit-highlights-democracy-in-world%e2%80%99s-most-important-least-known-country.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam and democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam/politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[authoritarian rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collusion and nepotism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compatibility of democracy and Islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy conference in Jakarta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic transition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Transition and Consolidation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equating democracy with liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia and democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KKN: corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pluralism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shari'a]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama’s visit to Indonesia is both personal and political, writes the Brookings Institution’s Lex Rieffel. One of the trip’s objectives is to raise the global profile of the world’s most important and least known country, including its “impressive transition from 30 years of authoritarian rule&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; to become arguably the most democratic country in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost opportunity to support Iran&#8217;s democrats?</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/lost-opportunity-to-support-irans-democrats.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/mena/lost-opportunity-to-support-irans-democrats.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amir Taheri]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohsen Sazegara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nader Mousavizadeh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Revolutionary Guards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as Rwanda paid the price for Somalia, the Obama administration appears to have “overlearned” the lessons of the Iraq war and George W. Bush’s freedom agenda, warns Nader Mousavizadeh a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Consequently, “an opportunity to provide legitimate support to the popular movement when it mattered most was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: engage and promote pluralism through non-governmental links, soft power</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/russia-engage-and-promote-pluralism-through-non-governmental-links-soft-power.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/easterneurope/russia-engage-and-promote-pluralism-through-non-governmental-links-soft-power.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backlash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy assistance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[authoritarianism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[promoting democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[color revolutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pluralism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shanghai Cooperation Organization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New approaches are needed to promote democracy and improve human rights in Russia given that criticism by U.S. officials has had &#8220;limited impact at best&#8221;, a new report suggests. &#8220;Private and public support for grassroots movements appears to have been more effective&#8221; but, given current levels of distrust, direct government support for Russia NGOs has [...]]]></description>
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