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Turkey’s real strengths are its flourishing economy, secular democratic system, and ability to mediate between its Western allies and a region that is struggling to join the mainstream of the twenty-first century.
While India made important advances – in science, agricultural technology, and democratic institutions – the economy remained below its potential for decades.
This should boost India's per capita income;2. old social barriers to education for girls and lower castes are giving way, under democratic pressures, to strong calls for universal education.
Other proposed changes were added for democratic window-dressing.
Though fragile and violent, Kyrgyzstan is the most democratic state in the region, and it could be America’s natural ally.
That is “six times the amount the US government spent to promote rule of law, democratic governance, and respect for fundamental human rights.”
Shutting out citizens from formal democratic processes is forcing political discontent further into the shadows, where it risks becoming militarized.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for example, just held its first elections in 40 years.
As the Economic Commission for Africa concluded in its recent report: “Civil society and the media have increased their voice and power in the last decade of democratic reforms.”
When our diversity divides us, the results can be tragic, as we have seen in Rwanda, the Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Sudan.
Both ideas have their roots in the Democratic administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama; but they attracted congressional Republican support because they empower state and local governments, rely on public-private partnerships, and encourage rigorous impact assessments.
In time, these seeds of grassroots learning eventually blossomed into CIYOTA, a youth-led, volunteer organization that runs training initiatives as well as the COBURWAS school, named for the countries of origin of the children in the refugee settlement: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and South Sudan.
It is a strategy that is playing out in Republican states such as Utah and Kentucky and Democratic ones like Massachusetts and California.
Under “the moribund,” as the Constitution came to be known, Venezuela not only had eight peaceful presidential transitions, but also enjoyed the fruits of democratic pluralism and strong civil and political liberties.
This includes the notion that social justice can be achieved only by abandoning the path of reform and rejecting “bourgeois” democratic forms in favor of “real” democracy, born of revolutionary purity and the leader’s millenarian dreams.
In fact, one can find similar achievements in Chile and Brazil, which have not given up on democratic checks and balances, political pluralism, or freedom of the press, and have not enjoyed the luxury of $300 billion in oil revenue in the space of one decade.
Indeed, Ukraine’s interests form a comfortingly familiar triangle of economic, political, and strategic priorities: free trade and open markets across the globe; prosperous and democratic neighbors; and not being on the front-line of a conflict, still less a potential battleground, between Russia and the West.
Our goal is thus a democratic Ukraine located between prosperous like-minded neighbors to east and west.
Since the "Velvet Divorce" which separated Slovakia and the Czech Republic, there have been liberal democratic periods as well as the illiberal democracy of Vladimir Meciar's regime of 1994-1998.
In the United States, Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is taking Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, to task – quite credibly – for her close ties to Wall Street, eagerness to invade foreign lands, and readiness to embrace free-trade agreements that have undermined millions of workers’ living standards.
The only way out of this political trap is progressive internationalism, based on solidarity among large majorities around the world who are prepared to rekindle democratic politics on a planetary scale.
Bernie Sanders’s “political revolution” in the US, Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the UK’s Labour Party, DiEM25 (the Democracy in Europe Movement) on the continent: these are the harbingers of an international progressive movement that can define the intellectual terrain upon which democratic politics must build.
Provoking boos at the French Embassy’s Bastille Day celebration, he hailed the referendum as “a great popular uprising against a stifling bureaucratic ancient regime (sic) whose democratic credentials had become very far from obvious.”
He emphasized that a democratic system cannot be based only on institutions and mechanisms, such as the checks and balances between the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary; democracy needs more than political parties and free elections.
Partly owing to Havel, the Czech Republic is now a standard democratic country whose fate does not depend on one politician.
Central Europeans are concerned less about their capacities for democratic government than about Russian power and ambition.
While his democratic credentials are dubious, he has not acted in an openly authoritarian fashion.
Indeed, he now invokes his formal democratic legitimacy to fend off demands for his resignation.
Only a democratic mechanism for conflict resolution that has an uncertain outcome has any chance of being adopted.
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