Democracy Promotion Reconsidered

The Europeans should appoint a Commissioner for Democracy and Human Rights Promotion.

There is a difference between assertive promotion of democracy and more gentle support.

The EU should increase its democracy promotion efforts to at least 500 million a year.

America needs to create a Department of Democracy Promotion headed by a Cabinet level official.

No country rivals America s promotion of the rule of law, liberal democracy, transparency, and free enterprise.

The key principles of NEPAD remain African ownership in the promotion of socio economic development, the advancement of democracy, promotion of human rights and good governance.

Convinced of the need to link the promotion of democracy and human rights, Italy attached particular importance to working with the Community of Democracies , a forum dedicated to the peaceful promotion of democracy of which Mali had recently assumed the presidency.

This, too, began with Reagan and Thatcher. They took up Kennedy s promotion of democracy in the world.

Protection and empowerment of citizens. Building and strengthening of democracy at all levels. Promotion of peace and justice.

SADC has a common agenda geared towards the promotion and attainment of sustainable development, peace, stability and democracy.

Reaffirming that the promotion of all human rights, including the right to development, and the elimination of extreme poverty can contribute substantially to the promotion and consolidation of democracy,

Democracy is more than voting, for it requires large investments in education, institutions, and promotion of non governmental organizations.

CAMBRIDGE President George W. Bush was famous for proclaiming democracy promotion as a central focus of American foreign policy.

Cambridge President George W. Bush was famous for proclaiming the promotion of democracy a central focus of American foreign policy.

In the eyes of many critics at home and abroad, the Bush administration s excesses tarnished the idea of democracy promotion.

In the eyes of many critics at home and abroad, the Bush administration s excesses tarnished the idea of democracy promotion.

Around the world, disappointment with democracy promotion is widespread. Instead, consolidation of authoritarian regimes appears to be the prevailing trend.

George W. Bush was the most recent idealist proponent of making democracy promotion the main priority for US foreign policy.

The Security Council must continue to play a decisive role in the promotion of peace, security, human rights and democracy.

But there is also a tendency, not only in China, to dismiss such calls for democracy as irrelevant, even misguided. Recent American policies have given the promotion of democracy a bad name.

To this day, it has dropped the ball on very straightforward operational issues in Iraq, such as funding democracy promotion efforts.

The protection and promotion of the universal values of the rule of law, human rights and democracy are ends in themselves.

In this respect, an unreformed or misconstructed security sector represents a decisive obstacle to the promotion of sustainable development, democracy and peace.

Structurally, democracy promotion organizations in the United States such as the China Alliance for Democracy, the Federation for a Democratic China and the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars suffered from internal disputes and infighting.

Protection or promotion of women's rights Human Rights Association of the Niger Democracy, freedom and development Democracy 2000 the Network for Law Integration and Dissemination in Rural Areas and the Association of Women Lawyers, among others

They believed that aggressive promotion of democracy abroad was not only moral, and in the American tradition, but in the national interest as well.

But ever since George W. Bush included these ideas as part of his democracy promotion campaigns, European Socialists have become more wary of them.

She observed that the OAS had a long tradition of supporting and promoting democracy and noted that the OAS Charter, signed in 1948, identified the promotion and consolidation of representative democracy as one of the Organization's primary principles.

The Clinton era gave us active democracy promotion as the principle tool of American foreign policy, which George W. Bush s administration took to unprecedented extremes.

Stresses that the consolidation of democracy requires that sustained economic growth and sustainable development of countries and communities foster the promotion and consolidation of democracies

(h) To begin urgently a national dialogue with political parties to restore peace, stability, the promotion and protection of human rights and to safeguard democracy

The irony is obvious Islamists, who seem suspicious of democracy as a Western plot, took President George W. Bush s promotion of democracy in the Muslim world more seriously than America s autocratic friends and possibly more seriously than Bush himself.

CAMBRIDGE President George W. Bush was famous for proclaiming democracy promotion as a central focus of American foreign policy. He was not alone in this rhetoric.

A new Trans Atlantic Forum for Democracy Promotion could be created to co ordinate all activities in the region, including bilateral programs pursued by European countries.

Reaffirms that democracy facilitates the promotion and protection of civil and political rights, as well as the progressive realization of all economic, social and cultural rights

Cambridge President George W. Bush was famous for proclaiming the promotion of democracy a central focus of American foreign policy. He was not alone in this rhetoric.

3. Also welcomes the progress made in the consolidation of a lasting peace and tranquillity, the enhancement of democracy and the promotion of national reconciliation in Mozambique

Recalling commitments undertaken by Member States for the promotion of democracy and the rule of law, within the framework of the United Nations and other international organizations,

Their promotion of American military force as the strong arm of democracy may have been misguided, crude, arrogant, ignorant, naïve, and deeply dangerous, but it was indisputably idealistic.

Other examples include the principle of legitimacy accountability for both States and their leaders the principle of solidarity responsibility and the stronger emphasis on the promotion of democracy.

(e) Creating and improving the legal framework and necessary mechanisms for enabling the wide participation of all members of civil society in the promotion and consolidation of democracy, by

Institutionalized corruption remains a major obstacle to honest and transparent government and thus to the consolidation of democracy and the promotion of sustainable development, especially in many developing countries.

Stresses the importance of an effective, transparent and accountable functioning of parliaments and acknowledges their fundamental role in the promotion and protection of democracy and the rule of law

African countries have committed themselves to the promotion of democracy and good governance, including economic governance, as espoused by the African leaders, including in the African Peer Review Mechanism.