This was a landmark day in the history of the country and its return to democracy.

We are of course maintaining a constructive dialogue and recommending an expeditious return to democracy, including national reconciliation and the necessary reforms and legislation to move the country forward.

However, the democracy fund should be used to support countries' home grown institutions of democracy and not to import foreign brands of democracy and to use them as a conditionality for accessing the democracy fund.

We commend the evolving return to democracy, reconciliation, security and development in Togo, and we appreciate the efforts of the United Nations, the European Union (EU) and other development partners in this regard.

But it would be an important step in the right direction. More important, actively blocking that step forces the political system toward a precipice from which democracy cannot return.

I'm going to use these two countries to make an economic argument for democracy, rather than against democracy.

The new United Nations Democracy Fund will provide assistance to countries seeking to establish or strengthen their democracy.

The Road to Arab Democracy

The politicization of foreign aid reflects the same hubris. Even as the US rhetorically champions democracy in the Middle East, its first response to Hamas s victory was to demand that the newly elected government return 50 million in US aid.

Is Uber a Threat to Democracy?

Democracy

Democracy

Putin s return to the presidency, following a period of de facto control as prime minister, was supposed to signify a reassuring continuation of business as usual a strong, orderly state devoid of the potentially destabilizing effects of multiparty democracy and bickering politicians.

We have to speak up. We have to solve this democracy this We have sclerosis in our democracy. And we have to change that.

And it's obviously got nothing to do with democracy, because in our terms the Chinese certainly don't have a democracy.

Unfortunately, Bush s strategy of democracy promotion has mainly contributed to unease around the world and alienation from Western goals. Especially in view of the Iraq experience, Putin has won substantial public sympathy by arguing that opposition to Western democracy promotion is resistance not to democracy itself, but to Western intervention against Russian sovereign democracy.

Rethinking Democracy

Damaged Democracy

Gunboat Democracy?

C. Democracy

Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?

Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?

But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

Welcome to democracy, our Tunisian and Egyptian friends.

The Real Route to Democracy at the IMF

So let's return from the heights of metaphor and return to science.

To that end, I support the creation of a democracy fund at the United Nations to provide assistance to countries seeking to establish or strengthen their democracy.

But to get to that stage, where democracy builds the fabric of society and the political choices within that fabric, but are certainly not theocratic and military dictatorship i.e. you're voting in a democracy, in an existing democracy, and that democracy is not merely one of the choices at the ballot box.

It is all about working for democracy so that democracy will work for us.

Otherwise, there will be democracy, but there may also be a failure of democracy.

But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.

But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.

Democracy in Europe

India s Disrupted Democracy

Democracy in Arabia?

Debt and Democracy

Deflation and Democracy

Democracy Comes Second

Democracy in Distress

Democracy Promotion Reconsidered

Deterring Arab Democracy

Exiting from Democracy?

Reviving Muslim Democracy

Is this democracy?