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Mediterranean Quarterly - Musharraf and Pakistan: Democracy Postponed - 0 views

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    Following a 1999 coup, Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf ruled by decree with the support of the military. He held a presidential referendum and got his party elected. He amended the constitution to legitimize his military rule. His involvement in the w
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Is Al Qaeda About To Conquer Pakistan? | newmatilda.com - 0 views

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    Counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen believes that Pakistan could collapse "within months". But Mustafa Qadri reports that in the tribal areas, it is actually the Taliban, not al Qaeda, that is gaining traction
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LRB · Tim Parks: Bloody Glamour - 0 views

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    On 22 February 1854, James Buchanan, then the American ambassador in London but soon to be president of the US, celebrated George Washington's birthday with a dinner to which Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi were invited. At Mazzini's request other
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Why promoting democracy via the internet is often not a good idea | Net Effect - 0 views

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    All in all, the world of international digital activism is much more complex that it appears on first sight. As much as I'd like hope that we are already long past the point where most Western governments, agencies, and NGOs operate on the assumption that
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Democracy Resource Center Blog: The Georgia Crisis and Russia-Turkey Relations - 0 views

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    URL: http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/GeorgiaCrisisTorbakov.pdf. Source: Jamestown Foundation. The August 2008 Russia-Georgia war has triggered some major shifts in regional geopolitics. The Caucasus crisis also directly affected the relationship
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Democracy Is a Good Thing: Essays on Politics, Society, and Culture in Contemporary Chi... - 0 views

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    What do China's leaders mean when they say that the Chinese system is democratic and getting more so? To help answer this question, the influential John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution offers a translated set of key writings by Yu, a
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Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy From Its Worst Enemies | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

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    Democratic states have periodically been threatened by demagogues -- political figures who fashion themselves as leaders of the people but in fact use the levers of government to establish autocratic rule. In this intriguing book, Signer explores the inte
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Bring Back the State :: New Perspectives Quarterly - 0 views

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    As the global financial crisis emanating from the United States shuts down world markets, can globalization survive? Will the resurgent intrusion of the state-and thus politics-into the market lead to protectionism and collapse, as was the case in the ear
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Barack and Slumdog Millionaire :: New Perspectives Quarterly - 0 views

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    President Barack Obama pledged in his first TV interview-with the Arab satellite channel Al Arabiya-that America under his watch would "listen with respect and not dictate" to the world. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has further announced that this c
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Smart Power :: New Perspectives Quarterly - 0 views

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    President Barack Obama pledged in his first TV interview-with the Arab satellite channel Al Arabiya-that America under his watch would "listen with respect and not dictate" to the world. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has further announced that this c
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POLITICS-US: Overcoming Toxic Legacy of Bush-Style Democracy - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (IPS) - A massive overhaul of U.S. development assistance is needed, says a new report from an influential Washington think tank. While the "heightened rhetorical attention" given to democracy issues by George W. Bush's administration w
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DEVELOPMENT: IMF, Reform Thyself, Groups Say - 0 views

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    UNITED NATIONS, Apr 20 (IPS) - Ahead of the annual meetings of the world's biggest international financial institutions this weekend, calls are growing for the United Nations to take new initiatives on financing for development in poor countries. "There
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International Crisis Group - B59 Zimbabwe: Engaging the Inclusive Government - 0 views

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    After nearly a year of seemingly endless talks brokered by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Zimbabwe's long-ruling ZANU-PF party and the two factions of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formed a coalition government in
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The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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    In the seven and a half years since September 11, the United States has witnessed one of the greatest expansions of executive authority in its history, at the expense of the constitutionally mandated separation of powers. President Obama, as only the thir
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From Insurgency to Democracy: The Challenges of Peace and Democracy-Building in Nepal -... - 0 views

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    The failure of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes spurred a global surge in democratization in the 1980s. However, efforts at democratization have been challenged by path-dependent institutional and political variables that can inhibit the growth of w
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The Complexities of Internal Conflict in the Third World: Beyond Ethnic and Religious C... - 0 views

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    There are many patterns of internal conflict identified in the Third World-"economically vulnerable," "politically vulnerable,""heterogeneous-parochial," and "egalitarian-distributive"-and the sheer variety of these indicates that internal conflict is a c
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Come A Little Closer: Citizens, Law, and Identification -- Kirkpatrick 5 (2): 216 -- La... - 0 views

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    What should the relationship between citizens and the law in a liberal democracy look like? The idea that citizens should be associated with the laws that govern them is a cornerstone of democratic theory. Yet the specific nature of this relationship has
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Some Pitfalls of Democratisation in a Globalising World: Thoughts from the 2008 Millenn... - 0 views

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    The problems and prospects of the expansion of democracy at international, transnational and/or global levels were the focus of numerous fascinating and penetrating analyses by the participants in the 2008 Millennium Conference. However, there were also a
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Lust/Caution in IR: Democratising World Politics with Culture as a Method -- Boyu Chen ... - 0 views

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    International Relations (IR) needs democratising. Currently, IR theorising remains under the hegemony of a singular worldview (`warre of all against all') with a singular logic (`conversion or discipline') for all actors and activities. This top-down, sta
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The Right to Democracy in International Law: A Classical Liberal Reassessment -- Fabry ... - 0 views

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    The end of the cold war brought with it arguments in favour of international institutional and legal mechanisms that would protect democracy worldwide. These arguments have by no means been confined to the academic departments of international law or poli
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