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[...] we readers get the point. Were the debate as open here, we could count on the mainstream media (MSM) to do more than tout the Israeli line. Since they don't, we try to provide "balance" by covering stories the MSMrefuses to touch such as the Israel lobby, which we reported on in Vol.
...] Silajdzic subsequently gave before the Council of Europe." Likewise, I refer you to the official ...7 briefing by the Democratization Policy Council, which footnoted the quote-but the ...
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... the past twenty years, mainly because most policy makers inside the Beltway have agreed with the thr... hardly surprising that a recent Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey found that "looking forwa... only very rarely played a role in democratization since 1945." (6) . The United States in particular...
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Though Sudan's ruthless president, Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, is now subject to arrest by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, he defiantly intends to continue traveling to friendly Arab and African countries and China.
For safety's sake, however, says an aide (Sudan Tribune, March 11), his plans "will be surrounded by as much secrecy as possible." Gen. Bashir's most recent crime against humanity was expelling the most vital foreign aid organizations providing food, water and medicine to the survivors of Darfur.
...Security Council, while verbally reprimanding Africa's Hitler, will..., a senior associate of the Democratization Policy Council, Gen. McPeak strongly advocates cre...
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In his typically cautious fashion, US President Barack Obama gave a speech in Cairo in June that touched on Islamic extremism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, nuclear weapons, and human rights. In one significant regard, the speech confirmed a major shift in US policy from the Bush administration -- the minimal focus on democracy promotion. Obama's administration has three basic options with regard to Egypt and democratization. The first is one of minimal pressure and focus; one cannot expect much "change" to come out of this strategy. The second involves diplomatic assertiveness and some conditioning of aid. Finally, the Obama administration could aggressively pursue full democratization in Egypt. In a region with too many high-stakes issues to keep track of, Obama will surely play i...
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... of transnational actors in global policymaking is increasingly seen as a means to democratize glo... seen as holding the promise of a democratization of global governance. (3) Transferring models of d... next to governments in the Governing Council) as exceptions. Instead, other forms of collaborat...
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... appropriate distance from the immediate policy-making process and exercising influence without an... World Summit, especially the Human Rights Council, the Peacebuilding Commission, aspects of manageme..., and (4) peacebuilding and democratization. (23) There was no working group on HIV/AIDS. This...
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...foreign policy making. Examples include Woodrow Wilson's attempts...Final appeal may be made to the Privy Council in the United Kingdom. There are no military or po...
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... identity with its political agenda and policy preferences. . CHP had been left out of the parlia... had to be licensed by National Security Council (NSC) (8) for eligibility to participate in the el..., the party discourse was built on democratization as the main axis of modernization. This shift of e...
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... and Ian Hurd, eds., The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority (New Y... consciousness among diplomats and policymakers that threats to basic security in one state or reg... support to those who call for the democratization of the UN. The extreme politicization of Secretary...
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... the historical lack of regional democratization by pointing to domestic-level variables, such as I... democratic rhetoric from American foreign policy practice during the 1990s. Nonetheless, the first ..., but its replacement with a Higher Media Council did nothing to change existing penal checks on the...