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1. Juni 2018 Pfarreisaal und Restaurant Gia rdino
Traktanden :
1. Begrüssung
2. Wahl der Stimmenzähler
3. Protokoll der letzten GV
4. Jahresbericht Präsidentin
5. Jahresbericht J O Alpin und Nordisch
6. Kassen - und Reviso... |
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Das Protokoll der letz ten GV war während der letzten drei Wochen auf der Homepage
aufgeschaltet und ist auch am 1. Juni vor der GV aufgelegen.
- Wünscht jemand, dass das Protokoll vorgelesen wird?
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Zum Schluss danke ich allen Mitgliedern, die uns während dem ganzen Jahr an den
verschiedenen Anlässen tatkräftig unterstützt h aben. Ohne diese freiwillige Unterstützung wäre es
unmöglich, solche Anlässe durchzuführen. Danken für die Unterstützung und die gute
Zusammenarbeit möchte ich auch
• My Leukerbad AG ... |
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JO Abschluss: Die Kinder und Trainer haben sich alle auf eine Schn eesportshow vorbereitet.
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Zum Schluss bedankt sich die Präsidentin bei allen für das Interesse und für die Teilnahme an de... |
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Education. Networking. Involvement
Provide information for public health professionals and governing body members, and partnership efforts to
enhance the coordination of health and human services for Missourians.
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1:00 - 4:00 pm Pre-Conference
Poverty Simulation as a Tool to Increase Cultural Competency
Speakers: Catherine Shoff, PhD, MPH, Lindenwood University; Maria Salm, Lindenwood
University
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WORTH IT?WQ
THE WILSON QUARTERLY
SURVEYING THE WORLD OF IDEAS
THE GRIDLOCK ILLUSION
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FINDINGS
IN ESSENCE
Our survey of notable articles from
other journals and magazines
CURRENT BOOKS
Reviews of new and noteworthy
nonfiction
LETTERS
ABOUT USCOVER STORY
IS DEMOCRACY WORTH IT?
The Arab Spring’s aftermath brings fresh reminders
that transitions to democracy are not painless. They br... |
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Almost since the “Third Wave” of global
democratization began in the 1970s, tran -
sitions to democracy have been a major fo -
cus of the Woodrow Wilson Center. Our
cover “cluster” of essays in this issue is the latest product of a commitment grounded
in the Center’... |
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Wilde’s Women
Constance and inconstancy
Beyond plays and bons mots, Oscar
Wilde may be best remembered for...
4.
Open Covenants,
Secretly Arrived At
Fourteen Points’ false promise
In 1918, enunciating the list of guide-
lines for the postwar world that would...
6.
Distant Laughter
Humor’s calculus
Comedy is ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013PRAGUE’S
NO SPIN ZONE
Havel meets the press—on his terms
When Václav Havel spoke, Western jour-
nalists didn’t just listen—they genuflected.
The dissident-turned-Czech-president
BETTMANN / CORBIS
Substance over style: When he addressed the U.S. Congress in 1990, Václav Ha... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 20132007, after his final term as president,
Havel responded in his play “Leaving.” When reporters arrive to interview a chancellor at the end of his term, he ex -
pects questions about his political leg-acy. Instead, they care only about sex
and scandal.
But Havel’s wariness o... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013ters conducted the first American TV
interview with Havel that same year. Asked by e-mail if the reporter might have been Walters, Zantovsky respond -
ed, “It might.”)
Others tried to refine Havel’s pub-
lic-speaking style. Before he addressed
Congress in 1990, an American ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013in the Making of American Beverages
(Columbia Univ. Press).
At the turn of the 20th century, the
American workingman drank beer. An -
nual per capita consumption reached 20
gallons before Prohibition took effect in 1920, a rate that made beer the nation’s
second most popu... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013down, Smith said by e-mail, beer now
appears to occupy fourth place, behind water, soft drinks, and coffee.
The lineup may change if cities and
states adopt proposals to restrict the sales of soft drinks in order to combat childhood obesity, as New York City
has done. Some... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013obituaries for her were posted online,
newspapers around the world appeared to have anticipated it.”
But not The New York Times. “She was
on our to-do list and an assignment was about to be made, believe it or not, when the news came,” McDonald said. “It happens, and of cour... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013it, according to A Journalist’s Diplomatic
Mission: Ray Stannard Baker’s World War
I Diary, edited by John Maxwell Hamil-ton and Robert Mann (Louisiana State Univ. Press).
In early 1919, when reporters arrived
in Paris to cover the peace negotiations
that followed World W... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013As the peace conference ended, Bak-
er deemed its product, the Versailles
Treaty, “a terrible document” that was animated by a spirit of “retribution to the verge of revenge” against the Ger -
mans—a judgment shared by many subsequent historians. Secrecy, Baker
believed, had... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013college, he was often seen with Lily
Langtry. Later, in 1879, he made a play for the world-renowned Sarah Bernhardt. When she arrived for her first visit to Britain, he was waiting at the dock with a bouquet of lilies, which he lovingly placed at her feet.
In 1881 Wilde bega... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013months before his own death of ce -
rebral meningitis. “It was very tragic
seeing her name carved on a tomb—her surname, my name not mentioned of course,” he later recounted. “I was deeply affected—with a sense also of the uselessness of all regrets. Nothing
could have been ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013When the amount given away was fairly
modest—$50—the incident was funnier
if it happened to a friend than to a strang -
er. But when the amount was sizable,
participants had the opposite reac -
tions: Told that the woman had ac -
cidentally given away nearly $2,000,
they... |
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If Washington seems to get much less done than it once did,
it is partly because it is trying to do so much more.
BY R. SHEP MELNICK
OGPHOTO / GETTY IMAGES What gridlock? |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013T IS HARD TO FIND A NEWS ARTICLE ON
Congress these days in which the word
“gridlock” does not figure prominently.
After months of tense negotiations,
Congress and President Barack Obama
barely avoided going over the “fiscal cliff ” in January, and their la... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013“Gridlock” is the new term favored
by critics who are frustrated with Wash -
ington, and it is used by people across
the political spectrum, not just liberals. The triumph of this neologism over the more conventional descriptors “stale-mate” and “deadlock” is n... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013United States began to feel the effects
of what political scientist Hugh Heclo has aptly called “policy congestion.” As the government does more and more, policies increasingly overlap, bump into one another, and, all too frequent -
ly, begin to contradict one a... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013“public instability” would not only un-
dermine public confidence and weaken the United States internationally but would give an “unreasonable advantage” to “the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the industrious and uniformed mass of the peopl... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013Supreme Court invalidate those por -
tions of the law that five of the justices
consider unfair.
The Constitution’s critics also tend
to assume that the dangers created by government inaction are far greater than those caused by rash, premature, or intemperate ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013control of Congress in 1995, party lead -
ers in the House of Representatives
had acquired powers that rivaled those of the famous “czar” Speakers of the House ( Joe Cannon, for example) who had reigned a century earlier. Within the House, most of the “veto poin... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013administration managed to push its pro-
posal through Congress despite strong opposition from Republicans.
• With o nly tepid suppor t fr om the
White House, Congress bailed out—and essentially took over—the federally cre -
ated mortgage giants Fannie Mae ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013margin in the House after the 2000
election was only nine votes, the slim -
mest partisan margin in 50 years. In the 2006 elections the Democrats re -
gained control of both the House and the Senate, and the country returned to divided government. Animosity be -... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013defeating two vicious and expansionist
totalitarian powers—our constitutional structure seems to have served us well.
The record of the Congress that
convened in 2009 rivals that of any since the historic 89th of 1965–66. The 111th Congress demonstrates how par... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013gins and without the threat of a filibuster.
On top of this, the Obama admin -
istration augmented the U.S. military
commitment in Afghanistan, the sec -
ond major American war zone “surge” in recent years. It substantially increased
American drone strikes agai... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
signed an agreement to curb global warming by capping certain emissions, declaring, “California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming.”
More important, the Supreme Court
has ordered the ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013How did affirmative action—highly
unpopular with the American public—
become embedded in so many federal programs? Slowly, subtly, and at times surreptitiously, a long series of court de -
cisions, agency rules, and complex legis -
lative provisions injected the... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013Sparer note, had the effect of “prompting
coverage expansions during good times (the feds paid most of the bill) and de -
terring cutbacks even in bad times (ev -
ery state dollar saved meant two or three federal dollars lost).”
Instead of promoting a “race to ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013than 60 years. Rather, reformers assume
that we would naturally develop the stable two- or three-party Westmin -
ster-style parliamentary government found in Britain, Australia, and (at one time, at least) Canada.
My guess is that these reformers would
have a h... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013the differences between regimes. “Sec-
ond-tier institutional arrangements” such as electoral rules and norms es -
tablished within legislative bodies “in-fluence government capacity at least as much as do the separation or fusion of executive and legislative po... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013considered outmoded. Legislation ex-
empting budget reconciliation bills from filibusters has made the budget process somewhat more rational and majoritarian—and allowed the Obama administration’s health care proposal to become law.
Conventional arguments about ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013rather, adjustment of a variety of sec -
ond-tier rules in order to focus public at-
tention on the aggregate and long-term consequences of frenetic government
activity.
n to bring taxing and spending into line. Since 2000, Congress has done an ex -
cellent jo... |
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on the case for democracy now
JOSHUA KUCERA
on why some countries have little
appetite for political freedom
NORWAN, MARIAM,
AND NASIMA
on their experience
as women in Afghanistan
STEVE MCDONALD
on Africa’s long spring n the sobering aftermath of the Arab Spring, old questions about
the ... |
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FOR DEMOCRACY?
One after another, arguments that non-Western countries
are not “ready” for democracy have been upended by experience.
BY LARRY DIAMOND
HENRI BUREAU / SYGMA /CORBISLisboans celebrate the end of a half century of dictatorship in 1974. Portugal’s
Carnation ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013HEN ARAB SOCIETIES ROSE UP AND
toppled four dictators during
2011—in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen,
and Libya—people around the world
joined in the celebration. Yet soon af -
ter the autocrats’ fall, a wave of appre -
hension washed over many in the pol -
icy and i... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013a right-wing, often military autocracy
backed by the West or a socialist
one-party state, frequently born of
violent revolution, backed by the Soviet
Union and China.
The cultur al arguments against the
prospects for democracy in develop -
ing nations... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013 Though the y were not intended for
this purpose, such cultural arguments
served well the purposes of autocrats looking to justify their rule. If democ -
racy was unsuitable for their countries, why should these leaders be expected to introduce it? If a stron... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013Mao Zedong, who was responsible for
the deaths of tens of millions of innocent Chinese, while famine never gripped democratic India, was glossed over.) But there were other unfavorable compari -
sons. After Brazil’s generals seized pow -
er in 1964 following a... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013works, two of the most eminent polit -
ical scientists of the time, Robert Dahl
and Samuel Huntington, dismissed the prospects for significant democratic ex -
pansion. Given chronic poverty, Cold War competition, and “the unrecep -
tivity to democracy of sever... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013These include several African countries,
such as Ghana, Benin, and Senegal, and one of the poorest Asian countries, Ban -
gladesh. Other very poor countries, such as East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, are now using the political institutions of democracy a... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013is very much a global phenomenon.
Although there is wide variation across
countries and regions, with low levels of trust in parties and politicians in the wealthier democracies of Asia, Latin America, and postcommunist Europe, people virtually everywhere sa... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013 It is m uch too early to know the
fate of the popular movements for
freedom in the Arab world, and we should not minimize the continuing assault on movements for democracy and accountability in countries as di -
verse as Venezuela, Russia, and Iran.
Over th... |
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FREEDOM
Recent history in the countries of the former Soviet Union suggests that
the appetite for freedom may not be as strong everywhere as we assume.
BY JOSHUA KUCERA
YURI KOCHETKOV / EPA / CORBIS Enough votes: Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev greets supp... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013ITH ITS INSPIRING IMAGES OF CIT -
izens around the Middle East
taking to the streets to demand
an end to dictatorship, the Arab Spring
rekindled our faith in democracy. As
the dramatic events unfolded on tele -
vision, it was impossible not to believe
that ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013who believe that a “strong leader” is
preferable to a democratic government have risen significantly over the past 20 years. A survey last year of 10 ex-Soviet states by the Russian research institute
Integration found that Russian strong -
man Vladimir Putin... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013yev won 96 percent of the vote.
Yet Kazakhstan is prospering and
stable, and is building a middle class,
while Kyrgyzstan is chronically mired in chaos. Kazakhs, at least in the big cities, can shop at nice malls and afford beach vacations in Turkey. One Wes... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013me about observing a rally in support of
Zhovtis shortly after his sentencing. The official approached carefully, not wanting to appear to be part of the event and give credence to the inevitable government claims that it was organized by foreign-ers. But when ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013O WHAT HAPPENED? WHY HAS DE -
mocracy failed to gain any pur-
chase in the former Soviet Union?
Political scientists have identified a
number of possible explanations. Some
are not specific to the region: Low lev -
els of economic development mean
that peopl... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013and Central Asia specialist at George
Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, writes that “most citizens of Kazakhstan, and per -
haps most post-Soviet peoples outside the Baltic states, engage the concept of democracy much as they embr... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013for the United States was reciprocated:
President George W. Bush visited the country in 2005 and famously called it a “beacon of liberty.”
But “democracy” was never quite the
right word to describe what Saakashvili was trying to implement. His success -
es, w... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013do those things because there was no
one he had to bargain with,” Light said in an interview. “Institutional change of the kind Saakashvili implemented would involve more stakeholders in a fully functioning democracy.”
While the reforms succeeded in
rooting o... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013which Saakashvili’s party faced a truly
credible opponent. When billionaire
businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili formed a political party called Georgia Dream to vie for power, Saakashvili’s govern -
ment threw up substantial roadblocks. It stripped Ivanishvili of... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013had to pretend it cared. This phenom -
enon can be seen in the emergence of
several ersatz “democracies” in the for -
mer Soviet Union, with varying degrees
of credibility.
AZAKHSTAN PROVIDES AN ESPECIALLY
stark example. President Nazarba-
yev has shrewdly ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013prepare for Kazakhstan’s then-upcom-
ing OSCE chairmanship.
Ironically, when Kazakhstan held par -
liamentary elections early last year, the OSCE was critical, saying the process “did not meet fundamental principles of democratic elections.” Nazarbayev fired
b... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013creasingly come to value a judiciary that
treats all citizens equally, a civilian-con-trolled military, uncensored media, and honest elections—the building blocks of democracy.
Even in Kazakhstan, a few months
after Nazarbayev bragged in The Wash-
ington Post... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013Soviet states? As fearful as people in
this region are of chaos, could that fear one day soon be outweighed by their desire to have more say in how their countries are run? Even if that is the case—a big “if ”—that is the easy part, said Stephen Kotkin, the his... |
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IN THREE VOICES
Three Afghan women talk about violence and shelter,
the Taliban, and getting to vote.
BY NORWAN, MARIAM, AND NASIMA
HANGAMA AMIRIAfghan painter Hangama Amiri’s “Girl Under the Taliban” depicts a burqa, the full-body
covering that the militants forced wome... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013T’S ONE THING TO THEORIZE ABOUT THE
transition to democracy, another to
live it. Here, three Afghan women,
Norwan, Mariam, and Nasima, describe
life in a country that, after 30 years of
war, has vowed to become more liberal.
They all know refugee life,... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013bombs from the United States’ B-52s
made sounds that I still can’t forget, as if the mountains above had become angry and suddenly crashed down. Sometimes I went deaf for hours and could not hear anything. For the first time I ex -
perienced the fear of be... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013is not for Afghans; it only belongs to
Western people.
At that time, everybody had a spe -
cial definition for democracy. A woman
imprisoned for killing her husband said that she killed him because he was not a good man, and she could do it because
now... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013er or not to vote. If they did not, then
I didn’t have permission to go out on Election Day. It was almost the end of the day when my brother came and told my mom and me, “We are going to vote!”
In the car my brother said that both of
us should vote for ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013money rained down from everywhere.
But it went to Karzai and his family, his corrupt, lazy cabinet, and people around him. Throwing away their turbans and wearing ties and suits, they were very successful in pretending to support de -
mocracy while they fi... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013Obama to bring democracy and stabil-
ity to Afghanistan. But with the bomb -
ing of women and children in the villag -
es, and then, worst of all, talking about making peace with the Taliban, the U.S. government showed that their efforts to bring democracy ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013Pakistani house to earn money for my
children to go to school rather than weave carpets. But every day when I started to sweep the Pakistani house, I started to cry. I not only felt my life’s pain—I felt all of our homeland’s hard -
ships. Finally, I was a... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013after being tortured for months. She
had refused to be forced into prostitu -
tion. And there are thousands of simi -
lar stories of Afghan women and girls, gloomy tales. But why I am remember -
ing such sad stories while I am talking of democracy and free... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013We arrived in our city. Frightened
people ran toward us to watch; they
knew that we had come back from living in Iran. They were good people, and their wish was that we would be OK. Their hearts burned to us; their faces told us, “God will save you from t... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013whose name means “my hope and wish -
es.” Sometimes I feel like my ex-hus-
band is a shadow in back of me, and I feel like he wants to kill me or beat me again. I always try to travel by car, not as a pedestrian, because I am afraid. Most painful for me is ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013If I asked some birds: “Soaring in the
sky and not in a cage.”
Fishes of seas: “Clean seawater.”The blind: “To see the light of day and
sun, and not always see the dark of night.”
The deaf: “Hearing the beating of
mother’s heart and the sound of friends.... |
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In a process almost unnoticed by the rest of the world, Africa has become
significantly more democratic since the early 1990s. Its transition toward political freedom offers both inspiration and cautionary lessons.
BY STEVE Mc DONALD
WALTER DHALDHLA / AFP / GET... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013ONG BEFORE IT CAME TO THE ARAB
world, spring swept through
sub-Saharan Africa. In 1990,
Mozambique drafted its first multiparty,
democratic constitution. The next year
saw multiparty elections in what had been one-party states in Benin, Gabon,
and Zambia, ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013Bokassa in the Central African Republic
and Milton Obote, and later Idi Amin, in Uganda. During his reign in Ugan -
da between 1971 and ’79, for example, Amin killed hundreds of thousands of political and ethnic “enemies.” Often the former colonial powers averted... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013aid and mineral revenues for himself
and his supporters. He could be count -
ed on as an ally against the Soviets and Chinese. At one point, it was rumored in the diplomatic community that Zaire consumed more French champagne than France itself. Mobutu, who owned... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013South Africa had helped broker the deal
that ended white minority rule in Rhode-sia (now Zimbabwe) in 1978, and it had gradually loosened its hold on South -
west Africa, which became independent Namibia in 1990. That same year, F.W. de Klerk’s Afrikaner governme... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013Nowadays, the principle of condi-
tionality is well established among aid
donors. The U.S. government’s Millen -
nium Challenge Corporation, estab-lished in 2004, gives billions of dollars in aid, but only to countries that com -
mit to “good policies,” which the... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013
MAP: ISTOCKPHOTO / CHART: MO IBRAHIM FOUNDATION
Like other regions, Africa has experienced a perceptible “democratic recession” in recent years. The Mo Ibrahim
Foundation’s Index of African Governance rates countries along five broad dimensions: safety and rule ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013a way to accept the results. Nigeria, the
continent’s most populous country, en -
dowed with enormous oil wealth, also gets a free pass. Most foreigners are ea -
ger to get on with business.
But electoral chicanery rarely hap -
pens anymore without challenges fr... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013sure off autocrats, as has been the case in
Ethiopia and, of course, China. But the investment bank Renaissance Capital, in a study authored by its staff, The Fastest
Billion: The Story Behind Africa’s Econom-ic Revolution (2012), argues that growing investment ... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013and get the structures and institutions
of state right, then democracy will fol -
low. But that view is grounded in the assumption that people in every coun -
try share a sense of national unity and connection. In Africa, that has not been the case until very rec... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013democratization of their countries.
Wolpe, who, among other accomplish -
ments, served 14 years in the House of Representatives, chairing the subcom-mittee on Africa for a dozen of them, spoke with the wisdom of a political veteran. “You can’t expect an individu ... |
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FOREIGN POLICY & DEFENSE
NANNY ACADEMIES
From The Chronicle Review
DEBATING AMERICA’S PIVOT
From Foreign Affairs, Commentary, and
The National Interest
THE SURGE GOES AWRY
From The American Interest
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
GREATNESS AND ... |
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MANUSCRIPTS ILLUMINATED
From The Sewanee Review
TELEVISION’S NEW GOLDEN AGE
From The Chronicle Review
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
HERDERS UNCOWED
From ConservationDECODING AUTISM
From Scientific American
THE WIKIPEDIA WAY
From The Journal of Military History
OTHER NA TIONS
NATION OF IMITATORS
From Prospec... |
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THE WILSON QUARTERLY WINTER 2013JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERS / CORBIS FOREIGN POLICY & DEFENSE
NANNY ACADEMIES
THE SOURCE: “The Few, the Proud, the Infantilized” by Bruce Fleming,
in The Chronicle Review, Oct. 8, 2012.
WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS, THE U.S. MILITARY
academies conduct bus... |
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