Western diplomats privately said that they would not be able to defend the enormous expenditure of money on Afghanistan in their countries unless there was at least the framework of a working democracy.
First of all, unlike Lee and Deng, Duterte is an elected official, with a time-bound mandate, operating within the constitutional framework of a liberal democracy.
Most importantly, as the British historian Simon Schama states: "[i]ts central aim was to change the nature of the Dutch state and to bind its new institutions into the framework of an electoral democracy".
Students will explore whether religious toleration is more likely within the framework of democracy, and if democracy nurtures religious toleration.
He remained committed to establishing a socialist economy within a framework of parliamentary democracy and neutralism in foreign affairs, but his second term was marred by a long general strike and by serious rioting that once again compelled the stationing of British troops in Guiana (1961 64).
Reassuringly, all this is to take place within the "framework of liberal democracy and a market-based economy", says Mr Fücks.This is radicalism plus responsibility, greenery plus growth, party politics and anti-party attitudes all at once.
The nature of the international system compounds the problem: these actors do not operate within a robust institutional framework of liberal democracy and human rights.
In doing so, he complicates the narrative of the Zionist quest for full sovereignty, provocatively showing how and why the leaders of the prestate Zionist movement imagined, articulated, and promoted theories of self-determination in Palestine either as part of a multinational Ottoman state (1882 1917), or in the framework of multinational democracy.
Sending the Marines was the right thing to do, but Mr. Bush should have done it days ago, when there was still a chance for an American-proposed compromise that would have reinforced the framework of constitutional democracy.
