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Back then, they expected that the “shock and awe” of US force would not only topple the dictator (which turned out to be true), but also that the US-led invasion would be greeted with enthusiasm by the liberated Iraqis, who would then herald a new democratic era in the Middle East.
And Obama has made his support of democratic aspirations clear, to the dismay of allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The irony is that while King Abdullah has energetically taken on a leading role in the region’s turbulent affairs, he seems unable to respond to Saudi Arabia’s acute lag in democratic reform in comparison to neighbors like Jordan and the Gulf states.
Exposure to the outside world through travel, satellite TV, and the Internet has increased public demand for political rights, including the democratic representation that state paternalism has historically denied.
The borders of the kingdom cannot be sealed to ideas and from the desire for change, with people avidly watching Al Jazeera – officially banned in Saudi Arabia – as it reports about elections in Kuwait and democratic debates in other Gulf countries.
Yet Poles are dissatisfied not only with their politics, but with the very sterility of democratic choice.
Voters are given their formal right of democratic choice, but are denied its substance.
And their governments are not only large and complex, comprising thousands of agencies that administer millions of pages of rules and regulations; they are also democratic – and not just because they hold elections every so often.
Second, when have those deficits been “temporary,” apart from the occasions when later Democratic administrations reduced them by reversing the underlying tax cuts (as Clinton did after Reagan, and Barack Obama did after George W. Bush)?
It was democratic India (in 1991) and South Korea (in 1997-1998) that turned around their economies quickly, while Pinochet’s Chile (in 1983) and Suharto’s Indonesia (in 1997-98) fell into deeper quagmires.
One of the greatest sources of America’s soft power is the openness of its democratic processes.
Instead, the choices only become less clear, less democratic, and less efficient.
We will need the solidarity of our neighbors, and of freedom-loving peoples around the world, to assure that our democratic dreams are realized in peace.
So we will stand firm in the cold and the snow to see that our democratic choices are respected.
For we are engaged not in revolution, but in peaceful democratic evolution.
The EU is the embodiment of inclusion, cooperation, and democratic values.
No obvious European leader emerged from the election, and political haggling among EU governments over the next Commission president is likely to be prolonged and to look anything but democratic.
The leading Democratic US presidential candidates have indicated their support.
In this kind of politics, rulers are insulated from democratic accountability by a panoply of restraints that limit the range of policies they can deliver.
The Democratic and Republican candidates are doing all they can to distinguish themselves from an unpopular incumbent president and from one another in the remaining weeks before Americans vote.
Congress plays a large role in trade policy, and the near certainty that the Democratic Party’s majority in Congress will grow after the election means that protectionism will grow as well.
As America’s primaries move beyond Iowa and New Hampshire, it is simply impossible to predict who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees, much less who will become the 44th president of the United States.
Democratic and Republican candidates alike were called upon to explain what they would be prepared to do if there were an opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden or a need to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.
The most expensive countries in which to end poverty would be the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria.
Kolakowski, in upholding the sanctity of truth in the empire of the lie, connected the new democratic Poland to the old Poland of intellect and culture.
So, when Western leaders ask Arabs and others in the region why they can’t govern themselves, they should be prepared for the answer: “For a full century, your interventions have undermined democratic institutions (by rejecting the results of the ballot box in Algeria, Palestine, Egypt, and elsewhere); stoked repeated and now chronic wars; armed the most violent jihadists for your cynical bidding; and created a killing field that today stretches from Bamako to Kabul.”
South Korea is a fast-growing democratic country with per capita income of $23,000 and a highly educated population of 50 million.
Indeed, I believe that the delivery deficit, not the democratic deficit, is Europe’s biggest problem.
True, once religious institutions take over political power, they are never democratic.
But this does not mean that political parties whose programs are based on religious faith cannot be democratic.
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