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By Michael Allen on March 11, 2010
Promoting democracy is a vital element in the war of ideas against violent extremism, writes James Glassman, former U.S. undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs.
Public diplomacy and public relations are not the same thing, and efforts to improve the image of the United States will be less effective than active solidarity with [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Iran, Islam and democracy, Islam/politics, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, Religion and Democracy, democracy, democracy promotion, democracy support, foreign policy, promoting democracy, solidarity, totalitarianism | Tagged civil society, infrastructure of democracy’, Iran’s Green Movement, James Glassman, Muslim democrats, rule of law, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, totalitarian, violent extremism, war of ideas |
By Michael Allen on June 29, 2009
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 [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Elections, Iran, Islam/politics, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, authoritarianism, democracy promotion, dissidents, promoting democracy, protests | Tagged 1989, Amir Taheri, Basij, bazaari, civil society, democracy promotion, democratic revolutions, Fareed Zakaria, Mohsen Sazegara, Nader Mousavizadeh, obama administration, pluralism, promoting democracy, Revolutionary Guards, rule of law |
By Michael Allen on June 22, 2009
As with his recent Cairo speech, President Barack Obama should use his forthcoming visit to Moscow to send a message that re-setting relations does not entail abandoning democratic values, writes Lilia Shevtsova.
The trip could provide important hints about whether his administration’s approach to foreign policy will reflect 20th century realpolitik or blends pragmatism and values [read full story]
Posted in Eastern Europe, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Russia, democracy promotion, promoting democracy | Tagged Carnegie Moscow Center, democratic values, Francis Fukuyama, GONGOs, Lilia Shevtsova, National Endowment for Democracy, obama administration, Obama in Moscow, President Barack Obama, rule of law, Russian civil society |
By Michael Allen on June 4, 2009
Far from being resilient, the “rigid stability” that undergirds China’s communist regime is brittle and liable to break under stress, a Capitol Hill rally marking the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre heard today.
“Stability that is based on closed and coercive power, where there is no rule of law to protect people’s legitimate interests [read full story]
Posted in China, Human rights, National Endowment for Democracy, authoritarianism, dissidents, promoting democracy | Tagged Andrew Nathan, charter 08, china, communist regime, Edward Macmillan-Scott, National Endowment for Democracy, performance legitimacy, procedural legitimacy, resilient stability, rigid stability, rule of law, Tiananmen Square, Timothy Garton-Ash, Yu Jianrong |
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 |
By Michael Allen on May 15, 2009
The declining price of oil “will not achieve what our foreign policy and best efforts at democracy promotion could not” – democratization of autocratic petro-states like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela. The axis of diesel has other options to sustain authoritarian rule, argues analyst William J. Dobson, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Iran, NGOs/Civil society, Russia, Venezuela, authoritarianism, democracy promotion, foreign policy, promoting democracy | Tagged authoritarianism, Bush administration, civil society, Democracy assistance, democracy promotion, petro-states, press freedom, promoting democracy, rule of law |
By Michael Allen on April 30, 2009
Democracy and political stability in Mexico are vital to the United States, writes Francis Fukuyama. Dismissing the notion that Mexico is becoming a “failed state” as overblown rhetoric, he stresses that the drug trade has deeply corrupted its basic political institutions, particularly its judicial system:
“Mexico like the United States is a federal state, and responsibility [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Failed states, Latin America and the Carribean, National Endowment for Democracy, corruption | Tagged judicial reform, National Endowment for Democracy, rule of law |
By Michael Allen on July 3, 2008
Russia must become a “rational” democracy, President Dmitry Medvedev said today, suggesting that political pluralism was essential for Russia’s economic development. “To ensure that our country remains competitive on a global scale, we must have political competition” domestically, Medvedev said.
He added the rider that “it must be competition built on the law”, a phrase that [read full story]
Posted in Eurasia, Regions | Tagged ideology, political prisoners, rule of law, Russia |
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