Towards a Community of DemocraciesDIANE Publishing, 2000 |
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American authoritarian Bronislaw Geremek Carl Gershman challenge Chechnya civil society Cold War Community of Democracies coun cratic cultural Declaration of Human demo democracy aid democracy and human democracy promoters democratic democratic countries democratic governance democratic process economic effort electoral democracies Endowment for Democracy Europe experience Exporting Democracy Foreign Minister Geremek Freedom House George Soros global economy Halperin Harold Hongju Koh human rights idea IIP Electronic Journals implementation important Internet sites intervention Issues of Democracy Joshua Muravchik Korea leaders meeting ment NGOs open society opinions expressed organizations Paul Wolfowitz Peace Poland President programs question racy recently regime regional Republic Richard Falk right to democracy rule of law sion soci social solidarity Soros Foundation sovereignty and human Soviet strengthen Thomas Carothers tion transition U.S. Department U.S. government United Universal Declaration views or policies Warsaw Warsaw Conference Wolfowitz World Forum World Movement worldwide
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Page 8 - The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government ; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
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Page 36 - ... all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 7 - The journals — ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES, GLOBAL ISSUES, ISSUES OF DEMOCRACY, US FOREIGN POLICY AGENDA, and US SOCIETY AND VALUES — provide analysis, commentary, and background information in their thematic areas.
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Page 4 - UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States and the Organization of African Unity.
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Page 4 - China policy, despite the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and the clear evidence that China was becoming more repressive, congressional opposition to China's MFN status mounted.
Page 42 - absence of war between democracies comes as close as anything we have to an empirical law in international relations."6 Second, when democracies come into conflict with one another, they only rarely threaten to use force, because it is "illegitimate...
Page 23 - Carothers, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...