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08
Nov
2009
The war they can't get right

1 day ago by Andrew W. Smith

I made the mistake of watching James David Robenalt's presentation on his new book The Harding Affair -- Love and Espionage During the Great War, carried on C-SPAN's Book TV, and it was problematic enough to prompt this post. Now, for my sins, I am an obsessive student of the First World War. The ga ...

The 14th Colony - the14thcolony.blogspot.com · 3 references

06
Nov
2009
The longest year? 1989 started in August 1980 – Walesa

2 days ago by Michael Allen

The writing was on the wall (no pun intended) for communism way before the Berlin Wall collapsed, says Lech Walesa. In fact, he feared that the mass exodus of East German “deserters” might provoke the Kremlin and jeopardize Solidarnosc’s struggle for democracy. But Solidarnosc had stolen the communi ...

Democracy Digest - demdigest.net/blog · Rank: 40,053 · 19 references

Jobs & Opportunities

2 days ago by Michael Allen

Rights & Democracy’s International conference on Sharia and family law reform Rights & Democracy, the Canadian democracy assistance group, is searching for two speakers to present papers at an international conference on Sharia and family law reform in Muslim countries that we are hosting next Febru ...

Democracy Digest - demdigest.net/blog · Rank: 40,053 · 19 references

05
Nov
2009
Berlin Wall’s lessons for promoting democracy

3 days ago by Michael Allen

While Soviet communism has entered the dustbin of history, new forms of repression have emerged, writes RFE/RL’s Jeff Gedmin. As “authoritarian regimes are cooperating in unprecedented ways when it comes to the art and science of stifling the democratic impulses of their citizens,” the Berlin Wall’s ...

Democracy Digest - demdigest.net/blog · Rank: 40,053 · 19 references

1989: The God That Failed, The Wall That Fell

3 days ago by Michael Allen

On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Freedom House has launched a new web feature highlighting the changes in freedom in the former communist world. Freedom Before and After the Wall includes a retrospective essay; charts and graphs; a series of maps from 1989, 1999, and 2009 refl ...

Democracy Digest - demdigest.net/blog · Rank: 40,053 · 19 references

Of the People, By the People, For the People

3 days ago by Qifa Nabki

Here are the results of the “government priorities” poll that I posted earlier this week. The response was good: almost one hundred unique users cast their votes. I’ve ranked them below, in order of descending priority. But first, some observations and caveats. I’m under no illusion that the poll is ...

Qifa Nabki - qifanabki.com · Rank: 13,305 · 56 references

29
Oct
2009
Democracy Events

10 days ago by Michael Allen

EVENTS October 29, 2009, 12:15 p.m. “Revitalizing U.S. Democracy Assistance: The Challenge of the U.S. Agency for International Development.” The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) invites you to a discussion featuring Thomas Carothers, vice president of studies at CEIP; James Boomgar ...

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Democracy jobs

10 days ago by Michael Allen

National Endowment for Democracy: Current Vacancies Information Technology Services Manager; Assistant Program Officer, Africa; Assistant to the Vice President for Govenment Relations and Public Affairs; Senior Electronic Resources Librarian; Part-Time Web Communications Assistant ; Program Assistan ...

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Color revolutions don’t deliver democracy

10 days ago by Michael Allen

While Iran’s Green protest movement may have dropped off the news agenda, it is poised for a mass mobilization on November 4 when it is due to hijack the official demonstrations commemorating the 1979 invasion of the American Embassy in Tehran. But the diminishing prospects of an Iranian color revol ...

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Hindman, Chapter 1. The Internet and the “Democratization” of Politics

11 days ago by jeonglankinser

I was somehow dumbfounded after I read this chapter Myth of Digital Democracy; it had set straight my naïve understanding about political discourse in the digital age. Or an element of reality of it at least woke me up. I used to be bubbled up with the promises of this new technology era with possib ...

Jeonglankinser's Blog - jeonglankinser.wordpress.com

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