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Bill Brydon

Informal politics and the uncertain context of transition: revisiting early stage non-democratic development in Kazakhstan - Democratization - 0 views

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    This article examines the genesis and influence of informal politics on non-democratic outcomes in Central Asia. As opposed to current scholarship which explains the emergence of informal politics as a result of kinship-based cultural legacies, this work
Bill Brydon

BRASIL: Banco estatal acusado de fomentar proyectos depredadores - IPS ipsnoticias.net - 0 views

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    Recursos públicos de Brasil, de la mano de un banco de fomento, financian proyectos de deforestación y otros que también violan derechos, concentran la riqueza y hasta sirven a la expansión "imperialista" de grandes empresas nacionales, según activistas r
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Lost in bureaucracy: $20M Canadian program to train Caribbean leaders - thestar.com - 0 views

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democracy development for:@twitter

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    But recently released documents suggest one of the more detailed promises, worth $20 million, has fallen between the cracks. On his maiden voyage as prime minister to the Caribbean and South America in July 2007, Harper announced with much fanfare in Brid
Bill Brydon

The State and Political Instability in Africa -- Kieh 25 (1): 1 -- Journal of Developing Societies - 0 views

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    Political instability has been an enduring feature of the post-colonial landscape in Africa. The scholarly literature has offered various reasons for this phenomenon - the Cold War, ethnic antagonisms and rent-seeking behaviour, among others. However, thi
Bill Brydon

What is democracy? - Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development - 0 views

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  • Bill Brydon on 18 Dec 10
     
    In this paper, which forms Paper Two in FDSD's project on The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change, the authors review a range of definitional approaches to democracy. They discuss the relevance of existing approaches in the light of climate
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International Actors and Democratisation: Can USAID Deliver a Democratic Culture to Afghanistan? -- Hill 24 (2): 155 -- International Relations - 0 views

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democracy development for:@twitter

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    Externally driven state-building is a complicated task that rarely fulfils the declared objectives of the international actors or the local state and society. This paper critiques the international dimension to state-building by examining USAID in Afghani
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Cuban Development Strategies and Gender Relations - Socialism and Democracy - 0 views

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    Over the past 50 years Cuban society has radically transformed its institutions and openly encouraged women to become independent, educated, and empowered. As a result, Cuban women revolutionized gender relations and made much more progress than men. This
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Promoting Democracy with Neither State Nor Security: U.S. Democracy Promotion Efforts in the Palestinian Territories from the Oslo Accords to the Rise of Hamas | Yale Journal of International Affairs - 0 views

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democracy development for:@twitter

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    Democracy promotion in the Middle East has been a foreign policy imperative for every U.S. President for the past three decades. Geoffrey Swenson details the aspirations, projects and outcomes of U.S. - funded democracy building efforts in the Palestinian
Bill Brydon

Democracy and climate change interviews - Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development - 0 views

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environment democracy for:@twitter

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    The Copenhagen Climate Summit, held from 7th to 18th December 2009, was a milestone in the relationship between democracy and climate change. As government negotiators at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Bill Brydon

Somalia: 'They Created a Desert and Called it Peace(building)' - Review of African Political Economy - 0 views

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    This article documents the humanitarian, political and security dimensions of the current Somali crisis and assesses the external policies that are playing an increasingly central role in the conflict. It advances the thesis that in 2007 and 2008 external
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IMF FINANCE: Not Reforms, But Reformed - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have run into a predictable roadblock in setting out brave new directions: a roadblock called memory. What could have been an immensely sensible idea of turning the IMF into a new c
Bill Brydon

Contesting the mechanisms of disinformation, Part I. * Contemporary developments in Latin America: a South African perspective * For Part II, see Critical Arts 23 (3) 2009. - Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural Studies - 0 views

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cultural_studies democracy

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    In the context of spiralling decay that, in recent decades, has engulfed all spheres of the human condition, this article seeks to endorse Tomaselli's essentially ethical position, advancing that the foremost contextual launching pad for cultural studies
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Journal of Democracy - How Regions Differ - 0 views

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democracy development for:@twitter

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    Does democracy lead to more inclusive and equitable social contracts? Our answer is a qualified "yes." Democratization in Latin America and Eastern Europe increased attention to social policy despite wrenching economic crises. Yet welfare legacies of the
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Inclusive Democracy and Economic Inequality in South Asia: Any Discernible Link? - Review of Social Economy - 0 views

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    Studies of the relationship between political democracy and economic inequality have produced diverse findings. This study attempts to mitigate some conceptual and methodological problems inherent in such studies by using multi-indicator concepts of inclu
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Post-conflict Statebuilding and State Legitimacy: From Negative to Positive Peace? - Development and Change - 0 views

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    This article is concerned with the potential that statebuilding interventions have to institutionalize social justice, in addition to their more immediate 'negative' peace mandates, and the impact this might have, both on local state legitimacy and the ch
Bill Brydon

Grassroots women's leadership and 'deepening democracy': the Huairou Commission's Local to Local Dialogue replication - Gender & Development - 0 views

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democracy gender

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    Grassroots women's leadership is important if democracy is to be 'deepened' - that is, if representative democracies are to formally include citizen participation in more ways than simply voting in elections. One approach to deepening democracy is to enco
Bill Brydon

Grassroots leadership in the Network of Healthy Communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a gender perspective - Gender & Development - 0 views

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    Based on ethnographic research conducted with the Network of Healthy Communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this article examines how grassroots leaders have sought networks and partnerships as a strategy to amplify and strengthen their work, particularly
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Black Looks half hour for haiti: 2 - 0 views

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military democracy development

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    The "food riots" in Haiti are easy fodder for the media especially when no explanation is seen to be necessary. Try and find a single report with any historical background to the food crisis other than relating it to the overall food crisis across the
Bill Brydon

DEVELOPMENT: Civil Society - Window Dressing for the UN? - 0 views

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    Jan Aart Scholte from the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, asked if the voices that the civil society groups emphasise so much did not just mean the urban, western-educated elites but included less articulate grass roots groups that remain
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RIGHTS: Gender Equality Gets a Drop of the Funding Bucket - 0 views

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gender development democracy

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    All of these issues will be debated at a two week session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Feb. 25 through Mar. 7, which is expected to draw over 5,000 participants from governments, civil society and international organisations. UN
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