In order to avoid the danger of seeing the weakening of democracy globally, there is an urgent need to understand that democracy cannot be reduced to an election more or less free of leaders more or less honorable.
He wanted us to think of what we should do with ourselves now democracy was installed globally.
Pulling on a pipe from time to time, he told me that, after the Cold War, American-style democracy had become globally ascendant.
Globally, democracy is more widespread than ever, poverty is declining, and the species is healthier and living longer according to various recent reports by the United Nations.
STEVE COLL: That would be a good doctoral dissertation — how do the political parties that have benefited from Turkey's young and at times insecure democracy see democratic institutions globally?
Media is in crisis globally, and democracy as we have known it is under threat.
From 2001 to 2008, Piccone was the executive director and co-founder of the Democracy Coalition Project, a research and advocacy organization working to promote international cooperation for democracy and human rights globally.
Foreign policy makers in all the developed countries must absorb these lessons and examine their long-term rational interests, which are focused on stable evolution of basic human needs globally that produce democracies, not support for dictatorships, no matter how much oil they have.
The implication of "Cyber-Democracy" is to look at knowledge democracy from the perspective of a globally evolving knowledge society in configurations of a multi-level architecture (global, trans-national, supra-national, national, sub-national, and local).
Burn the wagons Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsDirect democracy is also on the rise globally, says Bruno Kaufmann, the Swedish-Swiss president of the Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe.
