Is Uber a Threat to Democracy?

Today, the biggest threat to Indonesia s democracy comes from America, even though most Americans want Indonesia s democracy to succeed.

After this spectacular Russian failure, however, Putin s managed democracy looks anachronistic and faces the threat of a real democracy in its neighbor spreading to Russia.

Vetocracy reflected in the Republicans routine Congressional obstructionism in Obama s first term is a threat to democracy.

Terrorism poses a serious threat to democracy, the rule of law and the very soul of human civilization.

The consequences had been social polarization and greater political and social instability, which had become a threat to democracy and peace.

PRINCETON The European Union s sovereign debt crisis constitutes a fundamental threat not only to the euro, but also to democracy and public accountability.

While Iraq an attempt to import democracy by force is failing, the paradoxical conditions of an Arab democracy under Israeli occupation may be a threat that Arab rulers have not yet comprehended.

These arrests were also followed by protests at the festival venue. The protesters remarked that such arrests were a threat to democracy.

The people do want democracy, but they will be disdainful of Western critics whom they will see as utterly naive in the face of the threat to democracy that the Muslim Brotherhood posed.

World leaders have met to prohibit incitement to terrorism, pledge money to support democracy and discuss the threat of HIV AIDS, malaria and bird flu.

Islam, many say, is a threat to democracy. The West is said to be at war with Islam, to quote the Somali born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

From Christian Democracy to Muslim Democracy?

The combined effect of the above factors in the midst of a generalized economic crisis posed a threat to democracy and social stability in Bulgaria.

Crippling economic austerity, imposed by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and Washington, is not only a social calamity it is also poses a dangerous threat to democracy.

Crime represented a serious threat to international security, justice, democracy and development and must be countered with coordinated action on the part of the international community.

(c) Paragraph IV (iii) of the Declaration regarding Intolerance A Threat to Democracy, adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 1981

This challenge to that country apos s established order is a blatant act of defiance of the legitimate aspirations of the people of Burundi to democracy and is also a threat to all new democracies and to all peoples who are fighting for democracy.

Together with the scourge of poverty, such acts constitute a real threat to the achievements that have been made in the areas of democracy and human rights.

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China s Threat to Russia

The Vatican s stance on the Italian vote is emblematic of a broader threat to the very foundation of modern liberal democracy the constitutional separation of Church and State.

Another aspect of America s domestic practice of liberal democracy that is currently being debated is how the US deals with the threat of terrorism.

Germany is a democracy firmly anchored in the European Union, and there is no threat of Soviet tanks sweeping across the North German plains.

But, just as the Turkish military s repeated interventions against a perceived Islamist threat have impeded democracy, so the Egyptian military s toppling of Morsi will not help to restore it.

The solution to the problems of democracy tends to be more democracy.

Is it democracy with adjectives, such as managed democracy, illiberal democracy, or electoral democracy? Only a few pundits stubbornly adhere to this approach.

A threat to the youth

The Threat to Public Health

In the 1990s, Chinese democracy movements , in part due to a number of philosophical reasons, and are fragmented and not considered by most analysts to be a serious threat to power of the government.

We will work to reduce the threat from regimes that are hostile to democracy and to support liberalization of non democratic States when they are willing to live in peace with the rest of us.

The solution is not to ignore the threat of terrorism, but to address the threat more intelligently.

A threat to peace somewhere is, as we always say, a threat to peace and security everywhere.

Democracy continues to triumph.

The solution to dysfunctional democracy is not military dictatorship, but more democracy.

The Bilateral Threat to Free Trade

(b) Eliminating the reference to threat

This is a threat to peace.

To kidnap, threat, terrorize, and intimidate.

On one side are Cheney and his allies, who see torture in pragmatic terms if a severe threat to collective safety is perceived, even a liberal democracy must get its hands dirty.

In addition, if Ukraine s President becomes an international pariah, he can only turn to Russia, as is the case of President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Belarus. After this spectacular Russian failure, however, Putin s managed democracy looks anachronistic and faces the threat of a real democracy in its neighbor spreading to Russia.

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.

For example, the Western emphasis on reform and democracy in recent years has been used more often than not as a threat, a typical message being Help us in Iraq or we will press for democracy and human rights in your own country.

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The Road to Arab Democracy