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Some forms of authoritarian government can leave a certain amount of room for economic and other freedoms, and thus might be easier to live with than illiberal democratic populism.
But we have seen what can happen when democratic aspirations are thwarted out of fear of religious radicalism.
They point to the special role of the western alliance, and most of all of the European Union, in assuring peace and security in the Balkans, in promoting democratic nation-state building in the region.
Central Europe with its experiences of democratic and economic transformation can and should make a useful contribution to the reconstruction in the Balkans.
In international relations, power, not right, continued to be the only thing that mattered: the traditional concept of state sovereignty focused exclusively on power, i.e., on control over people and territory, and protected the state’s authority, regardless of whether its enforcement was civilized or brutal, democratic or authoritarian.
Without functioning democratic institutions, Russia’s second attempt at selective modernization will fail just as certainly as its previous, Soviet incarnation did.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, marauding gangs purporting to be freedom fighters, and the government armies they fight, have for decades used rape as a weapon against defenseless women.
A woman at the Addis Ababa summit might have asked those calling for war, for example, to explain how, given their failure to control poorly armed militias in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and elsewhere, they planned to defeat Gbagbo.
A decisive victory in the fight against Islamist terrorism is possible only if that fight serves as a source of unity in Europe, one that reinforces our deep-rooted connections and our shared democratic ideals.
The reasons are well known: poor communication, a democratic deficit, finger pointing between member states and the Commission, a flawed institutional architecture.
His thesis was that once people have tasted freedom, once the oppressive leader is gone, they will naturally live as free people and build a new, democratic society without much central oversight.
They represent a very different age, which one is tempted to call democratic, even if Russia today is more like a soft dictatorship.
And yet, while civil society can be a trigger, sooner or later democratic politics has to drive the process of change.
The democratic opposition can address the flaws of the existing order only if it recognizes the need for very different forms of mobilization from those of the past.
The same can be said for the challenge facing the democratic left.
Obama and his congressional allies enacted an $800 billion “stimulus” bill that was loaded with programs geared to key Democratic constituencies, such as environmentalists and public employees; adopted a sweeping and highly unpopular health-care reform (whose constitutionality will be determined by the Supreme Court this year); imposed vast new regulations on wide swaths of the economy; embraced an industrial policy that selects certain companies for special treatment; engaged in borrowing and spending at levels exceeded only in World War II; and centralized power in Washington, DC (and, within the federal government, in the executive branch and regulatory agencies).
As Latin America became increasingly democratic in the years since then, more reporters chose to investigate instead of retyping government press releases.
Konzo is especially common in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, and Tanzania, and often follows droughts or conflicts, when food is scarce.
As a result, the overall legislative program outlined in the coalition agreement is more social democratic than that of any previous grand coalition.
Israel cannot afford to lose one major war, as it would mean the end of the Jewish democratic state.
Back then, the Democratic candidate, Senator John Kerry, upon hearing that digital x-rays had been outsourced from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for examination by radiologists in India, denounced firms that outsourced as Benedict Arnolds, the most infamous traitor in US history.
But mounting threats to a particularly important democratic right have not received nearly enough attention.
In fact, protests in streets and public squares are essential to democratic life.
Talking and acting in concert with others in a visible, mutually reinforcing way is central to the democratic experience.
It is a distinct and powerful form of democratic action.
Since last fall, when the right-wing PiS took power, the country’s democratic backsliding has caused increasing alarm, both at home and abroad.
With that assured, and its decisions respected, the Court will be able to address real threats to human rights or democratic values posed by PiS legislation.
All of this, together with the demise of the peace process, has left a majority of Israelis convinced that their country cannot be both Jewish and fully democratic.
So they have accepted the erosion of democratic values that Netanyahu has overseen, determining that they must put identity first.
Given this, it is perhaps unsurprising that Israeli Arabs’ recognition of Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish and democratic state fell from 53.6% in 2015 to 49.1% just two years later.
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