BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians Chapter 3 The Enemy Within: Civil Society at Bay Among the more surprising developments in 21st-century politics are the reversals experienced by civil society, once regarded as an irresistible fo...
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BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians give the authorities wide discretion in applying them to regime opponents. Such measures are typically paired with a court system that uses law merely to justify political instructions from the ex-...
Here’s what's unnerving about this for us now: There are whole approaches to power that look extremely reasonable until one day they look insane. For thousands of years the idea that one feudal lord should control thousands of serfs seemed perfectly reasonable to the lords and se...
Freedom House Chapter 7 Bullying the Neighbors: Frozen Conflicts, the Near Abroad, and Other Innovations Vladimir Putin's publicists have used the phrase “sovereign democracy” to describe the political system that evolved in Russia under his leadership. In practice, however, P...
29 Article 7. TIME Why the Muslim Brotherhood Are Egypt's Best Democrats Bobby Ghosh June 21, 2011 -- After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, many Western commentators were surprised by the ease with which Iraq's religious movements adapted to multiparty democracy. The Shi...
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66 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS aware of the threat that [the NSA’s] unrestricted, secret abilities pose for democracies,” he continued. “I hope you understand that con- tacting you is extremely high risk and if you are willing to agree to the following precautions before I sh...
more than 500 million Muslims now live in Muslim-majority countries that are commonly classified as democracies – Indonesia
and our ability to construct democracies — to your “falling-out” with neoconservatism. Was that “falling out” just local to some of the failures and disappointments of the Bush years or was it a break with the intellectual project as a whole?
or that democracies will find a way to solve their problems. I think we’ve got a number of long-term problems in the United States that don’t seem to be getting addressed with the current political system.
…system. But it is a trend that is difficult to reverse, unless the structural integrity of the EUR is enhanced, and the foundations of the RMB market are improved. Increasing returns to scale have made English/dollar popular, and it will be increasingly difficult to challenge the...
why not? It had been founded in the wake of the allied victory over Nazism by nations—mostly democracies—that had been on the right side of the war against Germany
the consensus regarding human rights was beginning to change. Although the Soviet Union had long used the language of “human rights” (as well as the language of “civil rights”) as a club against western democracies
BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians outcome of elections. They need to hold votes to vali- date their rule, but they also recognize the risk involved, as elections remain a potent instrument of democratic renewal even in deeply troubl...