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If anything, some of Obama’s Democratic supporters wish he would show more emotion in responding to criticism.
At its core, a democratic system is simply a legal framework – underpinned by a constitution – that facilitates discussion and dispute resolution.
Yet the largest bloc of voters in the December 1993 democratic elections, which were weighted in favor of traditional political parties, supported Refah, or Welfare, Turkey's largest Islamist party.
The choices: To remain secular, Turkey may have to become undemocratic; to remain democratic, it may have to give up its strictly secular foundation.
At the same time, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has described it as a scheme to “make America white again.”
For his part, Hitler considered an independent, democratic Czechoslovakia to be a security threat, while eyeing its considerable industrial assets.
Fortunately, Bin Laden’s death comes at the very moment when much of the Islamic world is being convulsed by the treatment that Bin Laden’s brand of fanaticism requires: the Arab Spring, with its demands for democratic empowerment (and the absence of demands, at least so far, for the type of Islamic rule that Al Qaeda sought to impose).
The fact is that before the US operation to kill Bin Laden, Al Qaeda’s symbolic head, the emerging democratic Arab revolutions had already, in just a few short months, done as much to marginalize and weaken his terrorist movement in the Islamic world as the war on terror had achieved in a decade.
At that point, the government realized that its democratic opening was slipping out of its control.
Those held simply because they do not support the government must be freed and allowed to participate in the democratic process.
They deserve the opportunity to build a genuine democratic political system.
The political upheavals of 2016 suggest that many people are frustrated with democratic inaction.
Democratic countries’ political establishments seem to be in a permanent state of torpor, fueling voter demand for strong leaders who promise to smash through political gridlock and sweep away bureaucratic resistance to bold new policies.
They argued that, because the reforms were unpopular, they needed to be imposed on the public, rather than being impeded by excessively democratic processes.
This is why democratic institutions are so important: They enable those who have been harmed by reforms to receive compensation.
Because truly democratic policies must be inclusive, implementing reforms in a democracy takes time and effort; but the painful process of building broad pro-reform coalitions also ensures that those policies will endure.
For decades, an overwhelming majority of Europeans have lived in peaceful democratic states that uphold their fundamental rights.
This softer approach will prove counterproductive, as it will not strengthen democratic forces in Serbia.
All of this entails a certain amount of instability, particularly if expansion is driven by negotiations among governments, rather than by democratic choices.
But Americans do not view democratic India as a threat.
Soon thereafter, Trump took a congratulatory call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen – a sharp departure from the “one China” policy that presidents, Democratic and Republican alike, have upheld for more than 40 years.
Hungary, where democratic backsliding appears to be taking hold, provides a foretaste of a Europe in which the eurozone crisis and deflation persist.
A country that confidently counsels others on democratic practice has elected a president who suggested that, if he lost, he might not recognize the result.
In the US, a nation that prides itself on its democratic traditions, pigs and calves are hardly the only losers.
But the left’s willingness to overlook the dismantling of democratic institutions in Venezuela is more reminiscent of right-leaning Chicago-school economists’ relationships with Latin American dictators in the 1970s.
The absence of one in Venezuela is hardly a reflection of strong democratic institutions.
If, based on an understanding of the processes and their implications, a majority of a country’s citizens find them to controvert morality, democratic principles would demand a government response.
A country-by-country, public-driven approach to assessing the morality of inventions involving biological materials and processes would reinforce both EU law and democratic principles.
For a democratic leader, negotiating peace is – perversely – riskier than waging war.
Despite these enormous constraints, the Santos government never deviated from proper democratic procedures.
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