Is Uber a Threat to Democracy?

Today, the biggest threat to Indonesia s democracy comes from America, even though most Americans want Indonesia s democracy to succeed.

After this spectacular Russian failure, however, Putin s managed democracy looks anachronistic and faces the threat of a real democracy in its neighbor spreading to Russia.

Vetocracy reflected in the Republicans routine Congressional obstructionism in Obama s first term is a threat to democracy.

Terrorism poses a serious threat to democracy, the rule of law and the very soul of human civilization.

While Iraq an attempt to import democracy by force is failing, the paradoxical conditions of an Arab democracy under Israeli occupation may be a threat that Arab rulers have not yet comprehended.

PRINCETON The European Union s sovereign debt crisis constitutes a fundamental threat not only to the euro, but also to democracy and public accountability.

The people do want democracy, but they will be disdainful of Western critics whom they will see as utterly naive in the face of the threat to democracy that the Muslim Brotherhood posed.

These arrests were also followed by protests at the festival venue. The protesters remarked that such arrests were a threat to democracy.

World leaders have met to prohibit incitement to terrorism, pledge money to support democracy and discuss the threat of HIV AIDS, malaria and bird flu.

Islam, many say, is a threat to democracy. The West is said to be at war with Islam, to quote the Somali born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Crippling economic austerity, imposed by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and Washington, is not only a social calamity it is also poses a dangerous threat to democracy.

Crime represented a serious threat to international security, justice, democracy and development and must be countered with coordinated action on the part of the international community.

The Vatican s stance on the Italian vote is emblematic of a broader threat to the very foundation of modern liberal democracy the constitutional separation of Church and State.

Another aspect of America s domestic practice of liberal democracy that is currently being debated is how the US deals with the threat of terrorism.

Germany is a democracy firmly anchored in the European Union, and there is no threat of Soviet tanks sweeping across the North German plains.

But, just as the Turkish military s repeated interventions against a perceived Islamist threat have impeded democracy, so the Egyptian military s toppling of Morsi will not help to restore it.

From Christian Democracy to Muslim Democracy?

In the 1990s, Chinese democracy movements , in part due to a number of philosophical reasons, and are fragmented and not considered by most analysts to be a serious threat to power of the government.

For example, the Western emphasis on reform and democracy in recent years has been used more often than not as a threat, a typical message being Help us in Iraq or we will press for democracy and human rights in your own country.

In addition, if Ukraine s President becomes an international pariah, he can only turn to Russia, as is the case of President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Belarus. After this spectacular Russian failure, however, Putin s managed democracy looks anachronistic and faces the threat of a real democracy in its neighbor spreading to Russia.

On one side are Cheney and his allies, who see torture in pragmatic terms if a severe threat to collective safety is perceived, even a liberal democracy must get its hands dirty.

Is it democracy with adjectives, such as managed democracy, illiberal democracy, or electoral democracy? Only a few pundits stubbornly adhere to this approach.

Six years after our Orange Revolution, not only is my country s democracy under threat, but the rule of law is being systematically perverted and our national independence bartered away.

During the Prime Minister of India's recent visit to Afghanistan, he and President Hamid Karzai condemned global terrorism as a threat to democracy and declared that there could be no compromise with those who resort to terrorism.

The solution to the problems of democracy tends to be more democracy.

China s Threat to Russia

Mr. Erçin (Turkey) said that terrorism posed a serious threat to peace, security, civilization, democracy, civil society and the rule of law. It also undermined human rights and fundamental freedoms, first and foremost the right to life.

The solution is not to ignore the threat of terrorism, but to address the threat more intelligently.

A threat to the youth

The Threat to Public Health

The solution to dysfunctional democracy is not military dictatorship, but more democracy.

However, the democracy fund should be used to support countries' home grown institutions of democracy and not to import foreign brands of democracy and to use them as a conditionality for accessing the democracy fund.

Crippling economic austerity, imposed by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and Washington, is not only a social calamity it is also poses a dangerous threat to democracy. When people lose faith in democratic institutions to protect them, they will reach for extremism.

The Bilateral Threat to Free Trade

The dot com bubble wasn't a threat to the banking system as such, but rather a threat to aggregate demand.

The Team's trips focussed on States which face a high level of threat, which have particular knowledge of the threat or which it deemed vulnerable to the threat.

The Road to Arab Democracy

Threat assessment

The Threat to the Central Bank Brand

Terrorism remains the greatest threat to humankind.

The new United Nations Democracy Fund will provide assistance to countries seeking to establish or strengthen their democracy.

India is a democracy, and Pakistan a wayward democracy.

Senegal s Democracy Put to the Test

The road to democracy was open.