Likewise, according to Fujiwara, democracy overemphasizes reason, another Western construct.

Most Western leaders think naturally in terms of a transition to democracy.

Of course, as Chinese democracy develops, it is unlikely to replicate the Western model.

As de Gaulle wished, the French president has powers without equal in any other Western democracy.

For the model is non Western, and the Chinese do not preach to others about democracy.

Western allies have a strong strategic interest in supporting Ukrainian democracy and Ukraine's Euro Atlantic integration.

Capitalism, democracy, individualism, gender equality, and secularism are Western notions that have been adopted in Asia.

The US eventually had to abandon its fantasies about Western style Arab democracy, but it ironically left the Iranians carrying the torch of democracy in the region.

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

In many ways, Asia s undeniable progress reflects its conversion to Western values. Capitalism, democracy, individualism, gender equality, and secularism are Western notions that have been adopted in Asia.

And Abu Karim says we should improve what we already have instead of importing a Western style democracy

I am all for spreading Western style democracy, but not at the cost of making the world more warlike.

Local and Western pro democracy advocates say that US officials in Uzbekistan have shown scant interest in their concerns.

Their answer is a revived Western world, led by the United States, engaged in an armed crusade for democracy.

Our institutions are working and democracy is functional, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told members of the Western press.

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

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

Anti capitalist radicalism pushed many Western protesters toward the extreme left, rejection of liberal democracy, and, in some cases, terrorism.

Europeans would show that we could embrace an Islamic democracy and build a strong bridge between Europe and Western Asia.

What Romania wishes to see in the Western Balkans is sustainable security and stability, based on democracy, freedom and tolerance.

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

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

Western capitalism s model of a society based on near universal affluence and liberal democracy looks increasingly ineffective compared to the competition.

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.

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.

Aided by systems developed by western intelligence agencies, China has forged a virtual sword that threatens to block the path to democracy.

The Putin regime occupies a space between dictatorship and democracy for which Western political science has yet to find a proper word.

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

The regime s true ambition is to invent an alternative to Western democracy an enlightened despotism under the tutelage of a meritocratic Communist Party.

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

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

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

They are not united by a common vision of their future, or by a common political ideal, such as democracy in the Western world.

After all, Putinism is characterized less by what it endorses than by what it opposes the West and Western style democracy, liberalism, communism, and individualism.

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.

Australia believes that the sceptics who that say that democracy is a Western concept that will never take root in the Middle East are wrong.

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.

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.

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.

Western allies have a strong strategic interest in supporting Ukrainian democracy and Ukraine's Euro Atlantic integration. But this course must be pursued prudently and with great care.

A transition to democracy in the old revolutionary Arab regimes will not correspond to a Western model, nor can it be imposed by American F 16 s.

Supporters of democracy tend to be less religious, more secular, more tolerant of others, more critical of public sector performance, and more concerned with Western cultural invasion.

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.

Low turnout, by contrast, could convince western audiences that, despite the Saudi state s best efforts to jump start democracy, its people are satisfied with the status quo.

But the message of Tunisia s Jasmine Revolution rings loud and clear democracy and the liberal political order in which it is rooted is not merely a Western concept (or a Western conspiracy), but holds universal attraction, powered by the craving for recognition.