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Under Yellen, it might best be described as a democratic republic.
By successfully charting its own course, Brazil has created a broad domestic consensus behind a balanced, democratic, market economy.
This poses a dilemma for well-meaning democratic parties and politicians.
In other words: readiness to defend a democratic state and its values against violence, aggression and evil should be nothing less than a natural extension of the inherent will of each individual to defend one's own dignity against potential threats.
In a democratic state these engage in the defense effort only insofar as society understands the importance of defense in the first place.
It is now, with the first chance ever to build broad structures designed to defend the democratic world that people must demonstrate a serious commitment to defense effort.
More democratic regimes were, consequently, rather suspicious of the political implications of institutional innovation.
No less is required to reconcile independence with accountability in a democratic society.
With the Arab Spring, regional public opinion has shifted toward prioritizing civil rights and democratic reform over foreign policy.
The War on “Democratization”The wars in Lebanon and Gaza constitute a grave threat to democratic reform in the southern Mediterranean.
The signal being sent is clear: it is preferable that Israel, the only state in the region that abides by the rule of law, be surrounded by authoritarian regimes where political outcomes are predictable than by democratic states where Islamists may well rise to power.
Any reinforcement of its power will necessarily weaken Lebanon and the region’s democratic forces.
Moreover, just when we were beginning to think that the Iraqi tragedy had made the limits of unilateralism and preemptive military strategies clear to all, the Bush administration encourages Israel’s military action – this time against a country that has painfully been attempting to consolidate democratic reform and to reafirm its sovereignty in relation to Syria .
Now the project is buried under the weight of America’s inability to protect Lebanon’s fragile democracy and Palestine’s democratic experiment.
A common European front could persuade the US to give Lebanon and Palestine enough time to consolidate their national democratic processes, thus isolating the radical elements of Hamas and steering Hezbollah to dissolution of its private army.
But Bush has neither eliminated massive subsidies to the oil industry (though, fortunately, the Democratic Congress may take action) nor provided adequate incentives for conservation.
Yet we should certainly have done as much to introduce and entrench democratic institutions in Hong Kong as we did to secure the rule of law and the protection of civil liberties.
For the first few years after 1997, “one country, two systems” seemed to work pretty well, though China did break its promises by blocking democratic development.
The motive today is not to defend ethnic Germans abroad – their expulsion in the millions in the 1940s ended that particular concern – so much as the more laudable desire to preserve the values of a democratic EU against the new authoritarianism from the East.
The third is political: to bring democratic governance closer to the people.
At the same time, the EU would agree immediately to Scotland’s continued membership, given that Scotland already abides by all of the required laws and democratic standards.
If the EU and the US want democratic India to act according to its stated moral values and not its vital national interests when these appear to conflict, they had better be prepared to do the same.
Feeling the heat, including threats from some US senators to link America’s nuclear deal with India to its actions in Myanmar, India has announced that it is asking for the release of Burmese democratic opposition leader and Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.
But the credibility of all democratic regimes, not just India’s, is at stake in what unfolds in Myanmar.
So has democratic politics around the world reached the point where voters judge politicians, male or female, strictly on their merits?
Widely regarded a year ago as a shoo-in for the Democratic Party’s nomination, she has faced a far more difficult slog than anyone, including her, ever contemplated.
There has been a “democratic recession,” as Fukuyama calls it, but it is concentrated in the more democratic regions of the world: Western Europe and North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe.
Unless these countries devise a new way to balance liberal democratic values and people’s craving for a sense of belonging, they will end up paving a path to disaster.
By employing fact-based arguments and appeals to humanist and democratic values, he is trying to modernize and rejuvenate the left – his “home” – as well as parts of the right.
And yet, in order to begin a transition to more democratic forms of government, it helps to be a client state of the US.
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