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For that, he must pursue democratic reforms, institutional regeneration, and renewed diplomatic ties with the West.
Likewise, as France slides into a governance crisis and its leaders’ credibility rapidly erodes, the leading French intellectual Alain Minc has published Vive l’Allemagne (“Long Live Germany”), in which he argues that Germany is Europe’s healthiest and most democratic country.
While Germany’s 1949 split into the Federal Republic and the Democratic Republic raised the number to four (along with Austria and Switzerland), the overall trajectory has been clear.
An estimated 429,000 people – mostly children under five years of age – died from malaria that year, with 92% of those deaths occurring in Africa and 40% occurring in just two countries, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A global economic order sitting atop a crumbling foundation – in terms of democratic support and national political and social cohesion – is not stable.
American political philosopher Elizabeth Anderson calls this the standard of democratic equality.
Government should guarantee (and, if necessary, pay for) education that is good enough to deliver the skills that allow citizens to interact as democratic equals.
The love for liberal democratic institutions is not spontaneous; it must be nurtured.
The center-left Democratic Party (PD), the supposed clear winner just ten days ago, won the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house), but is the election’s main loser.
But Americans invested generously in the survival of democratic ideas and leaders.
Indeed, refusal to support Georgia’s struggling democracy would most likely postpone democratic progress in Ukraine, Belarus, even in Russia itself.
In The Anatomy of Fascism, Columbia University historian Robert O. Paxton writes that:“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal constraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
Turkey, whose membership in the European Union Customs Union was already supporting its economic transformation, moved closer to eligibility for eventual EU membership – a process that reinforced the country’s motivation to make progress on democratic reforms.
One silver lining of the recent putsch is that, after years of division, it has united Turkey’s democratic political parties around the shared goal of defending democracy against future internal threats.
Western diplomats should escalate engagement with Turkey to ensure an outcome that reflects democratic values and is favorable to Western and Turkish interests alike.
A democratic and European Turkey could be a bridge to deliver reform and modernity to the Muslim world; an alienated and authoritarian Turkey could bring conflict and strife back to Europe’s eastern borderlands.
The result, as one Japanese analyst put it, was that “China scored an own goal,” immediately reversing what had been a favorable trend in bilateral relations under the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.
This turned the UN from a club of countries that share the same values into an amorphous forum of the international community--an indistinct body that never investigates the democratic credentials of its members.
The latter is worth emulating because admission and continued membership are conditioned on respect for specific democratic standards.
In recent years, a number of countries, often after painful reforms, have become democratic, showing that it is possible to "globalize" democracy as well as trade.
Yet other countries remain stubbornly outside this emerging democratic order, and some democracies may be moving toward authoritarianism.
The standard for admission should not be a country's mere existence, but its fulfillment of certain criteria of democratic governance.
Like the European Union, the UN should possess mechanisms to suspend or even expel members that fail to respect democratic norms.
A good place to begin would be to form, before the next General Assembly, a caucus of democratic states to coordinate their actions and establish common positions.
The liberal Russia’s Choice party, led by the country’s first democratic prime minister, Yegor Gaidar, received 15.5% of the vote in the 1993 general election, and with its allies formed the largest bloc in the Duma.
Russia wants to roll back democratic breakthroughs on its borders, to destroy any chance of further NATO or EU enlargement and to reestablish a sphere of hegemony over its neighbors.
By trying to destroy a democratic, pro-Western Georgia, the Kremlin is sending a message that, in its part of the world, being close to America and the West does not pay.
That process, now as before, must culminate in an independent and democratic Palestine alongside a safe and secure Israel.
Where Putin has failed is in fostering democratic governance.
Unchallenged in his second and last term, will he retain even that slight democratic instinct?
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