This small democracy, independent from Britain since 1981, has many exchanges with the United States.
"Rather than the great democracy and the small democracy working together, they seem to be working with deep suspicion of each other".
Max Rodenbeck, reviewing Kenneth M. Pollack's "Path Out of the Desert" (Aug. 24), finds fault in the author's not blaming Israel for all the hatred that extremists harbor toward us for our support of this small democracy.
Kyrgyzstan, like Bolivia at one time, is hardly the only such small, democracy-deficient, country with some manner of "strategic relationship" that fits in to larger US geopolitical concerns – in fact it may be the rule.
But Lineage might be the first dance club in history where the crowd also operates as a small democracy.
In the midst of the horror ravaging Europe, this community developed a small democracy with an assembly, agreed rules of behaviour and a court.
That decision, said Akhil Reed Amar, a professor at Yale Law School, had its roots in the founders' desire to stitch a number of smaller democracies into a large one.
Beyond remote, but the tiny Pacific island (population 10,000) and one of the world's smallest democracies won a gold and a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
"We are extremely saddened by this missed opportunity on the part of the people of the United States to join smaller democracies in ending the marginalisation of women," Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman to be elected as head of state in Africa, told BBC television.
In return the world's smallest democracy would not only enjoy the kudos of having the world's biggest MPA, but also hope to draw tourists.
