The Western democracies will survive with only modest changes.

The top ranked countries, where children are best off, are the social democracies of Western Europe.

A democratic Russia would want to catch up with the West and integrate into Western institutions.

Here Kim has shown just how fundamentally flawed his understanding of the workings of Western democracy is.

These same Iraqis saw a link between an effective democracy and the separation of religion and politics, as under a western system.

Once again, all the formulas for Western type democracy depend on the will of an enlightened and benevolent czar.

The clear model for a moderately religious party one committed to the rules of the democratic game are the Christian Democratic parties of Western Europe and, to a lesser extent, Latin America.

Xenophobic populism is stalking democracies in Europe. Social democratic parties are shrinking, while right wing demagogues promise to protect Western values from the Islamic hordes.

AMSTERDAM Western Europe s small democracies have, on the whole, been exceptionally fortunate.

Moroever, they are our kind of democracy constitutional democracies that contain all the features we take for granted in modern Western systems, not Islamic democracies like Iran.

The task for established Western democracies is to accept and cope with such democratic differences on the international level, and to seek multilateral coalitions to manage or solve problems.

In general, Western societies, it seems, are experiencing a certain crisis of the democratic ethos and active citizenship.

But how many bailouts will the people of the Western democracies tolerate before the crisis of the global financial system turns into a crisis of Western democracy? The answer is clear not many more.

BERLIN The people of Tunisia and Egypt have shown that democracy in Arab countries need not come at the barrel of a Western gun.

We in Turkey have been tackling the question of whether Islam can coexist with Western democracy for more than 150 years.

Still, possibly the British mood portends a wider change of climate for Western liberal democracies, and the onset of a new, less indulgent era.

What a real revolution it would be if the Western democracies did indeed begin to frame their foreign policies with human rights and democratic processes as their benchmark.

In fact, there are fewer constraints imposed on public discussion of liberal democratic institutions precisely because few Chinese are inspired by Western style liberal democracy.

For Israelis, this would mean permanent occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and thus reckoning with an Arab majority, which would erode the foundations of their state democracy and the rule of law and thus its legitimacy.

Some analysts maintain, reassuringly, that rapprochement between Asia and the West is possible, given symbiosis between Western democracy and authoritarian Confucianism.

Watered down by the compromises without which liberal democracies cannot thrive, socialism did a great deal of good in Western Europe.

During the Cold War, social democracy was Western Europe s egalitarian alternative to communism. Attlee, for one, was ferociously anti communist.

The European Union s embrace of post communist republics in Central Europe represented a most powerful symbol of the reach of Western liberal democracy.

In other words, the international order is becoming more pluralistic. The task for established Western democracies is to accept and cope with such democratic differences on the international level, and to seek multilateral coalitions to manage or solve problems.

The more that Russians, Poles, Czechs, and others saw of the life style in the Western democracies, the more they questioned their own system.

Of these new Belgians, 1,200,000 are of European ancestry and 1,350,000 are from non Western countries (most of them from Morocco, Turkey, and the DR Congo).

Our military and civilian personnel have been part of United Nations operations in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Western Sahara.

The paradox is that America might be winning the war for Arab democracy, even if by default, but cannot reap the benefits, simply because the emerging pattern of Islamic pluralistic politics does not coincide with the West s brand of secular liberal democracy.

China is clearly not on the path toward a Western style democracy, and economic growth will not be a prelude to a free society so long as the Party can prevent it.

In many Western democracies New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and even Italy efforts at administrative modernization have focused on forging a stronger link between management and performance.

Few of them are democracies, and not one of them holds Israel to task for its settlement policies in the West Bank or cares, like the United States, about Middle East peace.

In the last years of the increasingly unstable Weimar Republic, as democracy was fraying, German governments started to use their opponents radicalism in an effort to extract security concessions from the Western powers.

This has denied Ukraine the lighthouse that helped guide other post communist states most recently Bulgaria and Romania towards Western style democracy and rule of law.

Ms. Stame Cervone (Christian Democratic Women's International) said that the question of Western Sahara should have been resolved long ago on the basis of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice.

After they overthrew communism in 1989, the peoples of Central Europe gravitated to democracy because that was the prevailing form of government in the countries of Western Europe, with which they strongly identified.

Range and habitat This mongoose can be found in Egypt, Spain, Portugal, Israel, and most of sub Saharan Africa, except for central Democratic Republic of the Congo, western South Africa, and Namibia.

In Western countries, notably in the US, people tend to assume too much when it comes to bringing democracy meaning elections in the first instance to others.

Like the heat beneath the proverbial boiling frogs, the level of surveillance in Western democracies has been ratcheted up slowly but far faster than citizens can respond.

But Western democracies combination of freedom and order the West s most precious gift to the world is the product of a long history that cannot be replicated in short order.

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Not so in modern Western democracies, where personal passions are, at least in theory, supposed to be completely separate from the impersonal representation of group interests.

Authoritarian countries middle classes may push their leaders toward greater democracy, as in Russia, but Western democracies will also likely become more authoritarian.

My guess is that we're reaching the beginning of the end of 400 years I say 400 years because it's the end of the Ottoman Empire of the hegemony of Western power, Western institutions and Western values.

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