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...ore’s deterrence model and examines those incentives that discourage nondemocratic governments from pursuing violent conflicts. Arguing that existing democracies must make an active effort to foster the political environment in which new democracies can develop, Sharp discusses the elements critical to promoting democratization and thus strengthening system wide deterrenc...

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...1 LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS GLOBAL INFLUENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Features of a Liberal Democracy . . . . . . . . .2 Global Political Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Notes . . . . . . . ...

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... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x 1 LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS GLOBAL INFLUENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Features of a Liberal Democracy. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Global Political Tr... ... . . . . . 10 Tables 1 Features of a model liberal democracy . . . . . . . . 5 2 Approximate percentage o... ...cratic governments from pursuing vio-lent conflicts. Arguing that existing democracies must make anactive effort to foster the political environment i... ...ocratic state and theirrelationship to war avoidance. In examining current democraciesand comparing them statistically to nondemocratic states, Sharpc... ...mic freedom, and human development. Demonstratingthrough his analysis that democracies are inherently more peace-ful because of the internal checks an... ...soned for centuries and used large-scale statisticalanalyses to prove that democracies are a method of nonvio-lence. Historians have concluded that wa... ...n institution. x i Chapter Liberal Democracy and Its Global Influence Democracy is less a... ...t Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship LIBERAL DEMOCRACYlaunched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense...

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...se propaganda about India's alleged religious intolerance towards its minority Muslims and the Christians as well as the duplicity of the Indian left-liberals who undermine the Indian national interest....

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...m shape and sustain the Hindu-inimical narrative for over five decades. Thus with the State’s patronage, the dubious leftists by adding the deceitful liberal suffix, managed to spread their anti-Hindu tentacles into every sphere of intellectual activity with impunity, thereby unerringly shaping an inalienable idea of India in which the Islamo-Christian communalism is deeme...

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..., managed to livetogether tenuously though, which, in later days, the left-liberals came to romantically falsifyas ganga jamuna tahjeeb.Then, when the... ...us with the State’s patronage,the dubious leftists by adding the deceitful liberal suffix, managed to spread their anti-Hindutentacles into every sphe... ...the Babri Masjid, built over Ayodhya’s RamMandir in Babur’s time, the left-liberal ecosystem ensured that the entire Hindu communitywas engulfed in se... ...m and to demean Hinduism as saffron terrorism. Nowonder that the Christian democracies and the Muslim autocracies alike toasted herdecade-long proxy r... ...sive evangelical creed that were together downplayed by the Nehruvian left-liberal kabal thus far, and so became less indulgent towards both, which is...

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...A- A lot of subjectivity and very little science. B- To perpetuate the past. C- To assess the damage. D- To solve the problem. Chapter 2: When democracies lie. A- A war in Iraq. B- The Brexit. C- The Trump experiment. Chapter 3: The negation of the truth and of the superiority of nature. A- Crazy societies. B- The third gender. C- Gluttony. Part I...

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...To assess the damage. D- To solve the problem. Chapter 2: When democracies lie. A- A war in Iraq. B- The Brexit. ... ...past keeps on existing in this fashion;so do social illusions. Besides, in democracies,boarding schools are the first level of activism. Therethe stud... ... 13those who were elected in 2019, 44% of theConservatives, 33% of the Liberal Democrats and19% of the Labour MP’s had attended boardingschools. 8... ...ngle the myth from realityonce he or she is an adult? Chapter 2: When democracies lie. What is the function of lies? Children’s lies areaimed ... ...ly sharedpolitical habit, which is becoming a major componentof occidental democracies. It is clear that democracycompels politicians to entice citize... ... Chapter 7: Mass unemployment and poverty in the Occident. Liberalism did not result in full employmentand wealth, and the industrial ... ... the West. Even the“Swedish socialist paradise” had to comply witheconomic liberalism, which led to scarcity ofemployment and poverty. According t... ...022 to 14 700 inOctober 2022. Consequently, Sweden is not a safehaven from liberalism-induced poverty. As to France, it was peculiarly hit by massu... ...hesitate to protect their domesticmarket, for they are aware that too much liberalism isalways detrimental to job growth and national wealth.Americans...

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...ptions of an ideal uncorrupted society. While international anticorruption discourse is found to be broadly reflective of what can be called advanced liberal ideals of governing, the thesis enables an in-depth understanding of the manifold and complex discursive moves through which these particular ideals are constructed and advanced by the discourse....

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...tion discourse is found to be broadly reflectiveof what can be called advanced liberal ideals of governing, the thesis enables an in-depth understandi... ...increased attention to the weaknesses of the ‘victorious’ system, i.e. Western liberaldemocracy.30 Since the leaders of allied developing countries co... ...as a societal ideal fromIAC discourse, it is noted, closely resembles advanced liberal societies as conceivedby Dean.60 It is a society in which a) th... ...of the uncorrupted society via incentive-setting, as another way to60 Advanced liberal rule is the contemporarily dominant form of neoliberalism as in... ...nalysed there is a fairly well establishedhegemony that constructs an advanced liberal ideal of society and advances it via aconstruction of corruptio... ...on. They comprise the core of poli-tics and are particularly characteristic of democracies, where hegemonic strugglesabound.177However, and crucially,... ...of humanity or thecosmos.178 Given the diversity of political spaces in modern democracies, he argues,172 ‘Discursive’ articulation and ‘symbolic’ art... ...hand that a fruitful environmentfor corruption “is more likely in the emerging democracies of the South and East”.30Similarly, while corruption “thriv... ...rticulated as particularly dangerous since “largenumbers of people in emerging democracies might become disillusioned with thedemocratic form of gover...

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...r Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-...

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... the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tonguenourishes the rise of democracies.13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees... ... whoemphasized science and dialectical logic. In York, the monk Alcuin‘s liberal arts and sciences (LAS) school had become widelyrecognized for its ... ...excellence. Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised its seven liberal arts. Preparatory work, the trivium’s language arts included the ... ...e being illiterate—or maybe because of it—Charlemagne was a champion ofthe liberal arts and sciences, even though he may have been too old to advance ... ...ms. Possibly even more significant was the rapid increase in the number of liberal artscolleges throughout the world. Many historians title this per... ... him to write his epitaph focused on his trade. Printers Spur Rise of Democracies18 Printers’ roles in the rise of democracies were so manifold... ...encouraged the sharing of knowledge in a manner conducive to thesuccess of democracies. The Treasure of Our Tongue drizzled mists of free speech and...

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...e contributions The Stark Stupidity The Proliferation Chapter 5 The medievalism in India A disturbing comparison Chapter 6 Democracies in an oblique stance A one-way ticket to disaster The shallow understanding A story Chapter 7 The Two Indians The Infectious Negativity Swarming of the nation Gullibility at its worst A drama t...

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... that English, and English speaking societies, do have a rare level of liberalism, intelligence, neatness, efficiency, sense of decency and ho... ...his character, then no amount of ‘Perestroika*‘ or Glasnost’* would liberalise the Soviets. The liberalism could only allow the more pro... ... an act of perversion and misguided intellectual arrogance. Liberal capitalism is an outgrowth of English Language. This st... ... routes*, modern standards in dressing, the modern education, liberalisation of women, the civil administrative system, equali... ...o the lower caste persons of all age. Generally, in these so-called liberal days, most persons do not like to be addressed by this term ... ... The medievalism in India A disturbing comparison Chapter 6 Democracies in an oblique stance A one-way ticket to disaster The s... .... VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS Chapter 6 Democracies in an oblique stance Now let us come to the concept of...

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...Compared to all other available options, liberalism is still the most morally sound path for Western democratic societies going forward, and most likely to get us to the best resolution for the controversial social issues we face. This book will make the case for th...

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..................................... 36Reviving the Full Spirit of Classical Liberalism: IndividualLiberty Plus Community Building ........................ ... Classical Libertarianism ........................................ 124V. A Liberal Traditionalism Manifesto .............................129The Origin... ...........................129The Origins of the Current Crisis of Meaning in Liberalism 130 5Enlightenment Traditionalism: The Pat... ...ering Criticism About 'Oppressive' Families ............... 154On Applying Liberal Values to Traditional Structures ......... 156Towards a Comprehensi... ...eral Values to Traditional Structures ......... 156Towards a Comprehensive Liberal Traditionalist Agenda .. 158Liberal Traditionalism in a Broader Mor... ...sense, 33should be the aspiration for Western liberal democracies ingeneral, the ideal, in its fullest form, has never been achie... ..., and work towards governance that is both liberaland democratic. Since in democracies, things are decided bymajority mandate, if we want a liberal go... ...I argue strongly for the continuedapplication of liberal values in Western democracies, and therejection of ideas which are incompatible with such lib...

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...he Koran that Allah Will Destroy the Koran 44、‘The Koran’ and Doing Good 45、Islam Is a Kind of Culture of Order, Totally Colliding with Western Liberal Cultures 46、Mohammed Said Muslims Should Attack Each Other 47、Personal Practice and Religion 48、Splitting Middle East Countries Is a Way to Solve Islamic Problem 49、Western Countries Should Reform Muslim r...

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...ing good 45. Islam is a kind of culture of order, totally colliding with Western liberal2015.6.3 cultures2015.6.7 46. Mohammed said Musl... ...f China (CPC) as relating to the ownership ofstate-owned enterprises and to completely liberalize the management right of state-ownedenterprises.I bro... ...; it is stunning and amazing.The Chinese feudal culture is reasonable, and the Western liberal human rights culture is alsoreasonable, but only it is ... ... ending. That’s the end!This is what is typically referred to as individual heroism or liberalism. American people pin alltheir hopes on an individual... ...y force is the last resort. That is a harmonious society under the protection of power.Democracies’ government has little money in domination but has ... ... hold the belief that it’s a combination of Chinese traditional culture and Occidental liberalhuman rights culture. It is a consequence due to the fac... ...aging early marriage, puppy love, or childmarriage. Many western countries and liberal democracies are increasingly short of populationbecause of capi...

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...ndabove another. This is why effective free speechis so important. Western democracies generallyhave robust safeguards on political speech, butthis of... ... I remember back then there was a booktitled 'Conservatize Me', in which a liberalDemocrat decided to move to a deep red partof America, to live life ... ...phere, insults were common. It wasn'tuncommon for conservatives to call us liberals'crazy airheads' or worse, and it was verycommon particularly for t... ...ery interested inthe organisation of the 'religious right', andwished that liberal forces could be similarlywell-organised. Analysis of the religious ... ....There are news and commentary websitesspecifically serving conservatives, liberals,libertarians, leftists, feminists and othermarkets, for example, a... ... blogs onpolitics was first noticed around the 2004 USelections, when both liberal and conservativeblogs proliferated, and political blogs becameone o... ...Iguess the inherently antagonistic nature ofparliamentary or congressional democracies, inwhich politics is inevitably divided into twomajor parties a...

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...the rise of Islamic radicalism which rejects evolution -ary political change and liberal political formulas. The clashof these two approaches will sev... ...the fundamentalist MuslimBrethren, the harder-line Islamic Salafi group, and the liberal -nationalist Kuwaiti Democratic Forum. 18 In an effort to bur... ... take all’’ attitude charac-teristic of past Kuwaiti and Arab politics, opposing liberaland Islamic groups acted more maturely and were re -warded for... ...ed assembly. The prime minister selected across thepolitical spectrum, including liberals, fundamentalists,and Shiites, to form a coalition cabinet. 1... ... felt comfortable resorting to repressive methodsof governing. His commitment to liberalizing the demo -cratic processes within Jordan and co-opting t... ...e UnitedStates’ vital interest to provide the leadership to assist Mid -dle East democracies in all their various shapes and forms.Democracy and some ...

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.............................................................. 37REACTIONARY AND LIBERAL ................................................................... ...ove and compassion ahead of power and acquisition.” —“But commander, as a liberal Protestant Dr. King would still face the ire of theprotestant ev... ... 44 —“OK, love to meet a part of your past.”REACTIONARY AND LIBERAL —“We’re going to have a huge several month long reunion beca... ...advocating. Ifanything, I would have expected him to follow Pope John XXIII‘s liberal approach. Of course Iwould never have expected him to become a m... ...that educational opportunity is a conservative idea. It’s acornerstone of our liberal agenda. I see “equality” as basic to my liberal views.” —‘I ... ...ing the progress made from the Period of Enlightenment and therise of secular democracies. “The lack of education and the unwillingness to study and ... ...n, reducing the violence, stopping the global warming, and installingworkable democracies that allow for freedom and universal education. We can’t eli... ...reality of overpopulation and how it is already affecting them.Politicians in democracies are overwhelmingly concerned with the next election. Busines...

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...ling with imperialismleads to some serious misunderstandings. For example, liberal writers like Kenneth Boulding andRichard Barnet have pointed out th... ...great imperial powers of the world.”In the Progressive (October 1984), the liberal writers John Buell and Matthew Rothschild commentthat ”the American... ...oliferation, carrying out humanitarian missions, andestablishing electoral democracies. Let us scrutinize these assertions.Discouraging Arms Prolifera... ...g purpose is to expand and strenghtenthe world's community of market-based democracies.” In similar vein, the New York Times (October5, 1993) hailed P... ...atic statepower. In the United States, not just conservatives but Cold War liberals have used the FBI toprotect the security interests of the state. T... ...and Red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy.In other ”Western democracies” secret paramilitary forces of neofascist persuation (the most ... ...” The function of these secret operations was tomake sure that the Western democracies did not move in an ”irresponsible,” anticapitalist direction.In... ...litarian effects of democracy. Conservatives, and some who call themselves liberals, wantstrong, intrusive state action to maintain the politico-econo... ...ture, and television.For all their complaints about ”cultural elites” and ”liberal media,” right-wingers worked hard toabolish the fairness doctrine, ...

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...that millions of Americansdeny global warming, detest homosexuals, revile “liberals,” and7 George Steiner, Language and Silence: Essays on Language, L... ... Ravi Shankar, Alexander Chee, Josip Novakovich, Katha Pollitt (annoying liberal feminist). But last night and tonight, readings by students. Much... ...en a Žižek makes it his mission to offend the delicatesensibilities of his liberal intellectual friends—declaring, for in-stance, that “the problem wi... ...e—let’splay on the meaning of “violence” and twist it around to provokeour liberal friends and capture the headlines of a bored intellectualworld, sin... ...at big business hasnear-total control over U.S. policy, a highly respected liberal historian saidthere was an obvious problem with this opinion, namel... ...posedly to help flailing nations freethemselves from tyranny and establish democracies. In fact, inter-ventions occurred wherever revolutionaries thre...

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...mmon environmentalproblem has been a frustrating puzzle to both Americans (liberals especially) and Europeans. The meaning of cooperation employed ... ... statistical measurements in the 1930s, had become inimical to theAmerican liberal. "As the Conservative worried about government power so the Liberal... ...ss power29" after World War Two. However, the attitude ran deeperthan just liberal concern. Gailbraith observes that "There is nothing in the American... ...ss, the colorful lawsuits of Thurmond Arnold in the late thirties, and the liberal lawyer'sundiluted enthusiasm for antitrust enforcement"30.The preva... ... European Coal and Steel Treaty, an often-discomfiting push towards market liberalization has been at the heart of the Europeanproject. Rising from th... ...ampaigns. Public information campaigns have been apart of mass politics in democracies since the publication of Edward Bernay’s Propaganda in1911, but...

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...ts of Anti-AmericanismII. Containing the United StatesIII. Islam and LiberalismIV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant EmpireV. The... ...ically devalue most that which wehave formerly idealized and idolized.To the liberal-minded, the United States of Americareified the most noble, lofty... ...m, Group Behavior, and Terrorism The Iraqi and the Madman Islam and Liberalism Back to the Table of Contents! 18 Containi... ...ship.The article clearly identifies America's (capitalistic)economy and its (liberal, pluralistic, religious anddemocratic) values as its competitive ... ...low. Back to the Table of Contents! 26 Islam and Liberalism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also Read The Cresc... ...andEast Europe can attest, these vital lessons are lost on thedozens of "new democracies" the world over. Many ofthese presidents and prime ministers,... ...,and collusion with Western interests, both commercialand political.The new "democracies" are thinly-disguised andcriminalized plutocracies (recall th... ...hies (Macedonia, Bosnia, and Iraq, tomention three recent examples).The new "democracies" suffer from many of the same illsthat afflict their veteran ... ...yth breaks down.For instance, it is maintained by their chief proponentsthat democracies are more peaceful than dictatorships. Butthe two most bellige...

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...esticindustries of this country.3. RESOLVED, That we pledge our support to fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union soldiers and sailors.4. RESOLVED, Tha... ...ment of the people, by the people and for thepeople," which is also a time-honoured Liberal principle, was again only for maleconsumption; half of the... ...dthe greatest effect on the Chinese community. And in these organizations,Marxists, liberals, nationalists and others worked together to carry into ef... ...),37 handled the issue ineptly. As a result, a coalition ofdissatisfied radical and liberal Chinese, with the support of the Chinese Journal,a New Yor... ...ine. However, an increasing sectorof U.S. public opinion, in which the left and the liberals figured prominently,opposed this short-sighted policy. Am... ...nal moral terms of the age, the politician moralities—"free world", "people's democracies"—reflect realities poorly, if at all, and seem to func... ...liance inappropriately called the "Free World". It included four majorparliamentary democracies: ourselves, Canada, Great Britain, and India. It alsoh...

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...s, a state lapses into an elective dictatorship. Althoughenshrined in most liberal governments, prior to 2005, for 900 years, theUK had not properly r... ...d a growing feminisation, the rates do not reflect one of the leadingworld democracies. Also, the British Black and Asian MinorityEthnicities (BAME) e...

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...er appeared to move so slowly ornot at all. [At this stage, he was still a Liberal.] I was always a very readyand interested listener and after some l... ... soon as he had arrived inEngland, he was already committed to a belief in liberal politics; the politics ofhis family and of his social milieu had al... ...litics; the politics ofhis family and of his social milieu had always been liberal. In London he gavethe National Liberal Club as his address, but it ... ...he date of their meeting.The Matlock newspapers of the day report frequent Liberal Party meetingswhich were enthusiastically attended, often to over-f... ...Photo: 730 Holloway Road, London[Editor’s note: Keir Hardie, also a former Liberal, was a founder member ofthe Independent Labour Party in 1893, and o... ...never been, and neverwill be, forgiven for it by the western (self-styled) democracies. Murder isdeath inflicted by civilian hands, slaughter by the r... ...lybasis which will ensure an enduring harmony between all peaceful andfree democracies.’Thus the Second International takes its stand with bourgeois p...

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...the eleven founding members of the John Birch Society, abastion of xenophobic hate, racism and anti-liberal conspiracy theories.5 Richard Mellon Scaif... ...ng the middle class to pay more. Theyfail to understand that the game is rigged against them not by liberals and the IRS, but by ... ...ominated by corporations is that humans cease to be an end in themselves (whichwas envisaged in the liberalist world-view) and are converted into a me... ... individuals and organizationsworking to curb the influence of the wealthy on our democracy. On the liberal end of thespectrum is Common Cause, which ... ..., women’s equality, opposition to the war in Vietnam, the transformation ofEuropean monarchies into democracies, even liberalism, were all once radica... ..., opposition to the war in Vietnam, the transformation ofEuropean monarchies into democracies, even liberalism, were all once radical ideas that onlyb... ...ntly at a crossroads regarding how our planet is governed. Whether we havecooperative international democracies or global oligarchy is still up to us....

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...attentivenesssince the end of the Cold War. The Bush administration’s association of democracieswith US national security is shown to be questionable... ...ly 990s is the closestthe world has come to witnessing total anarchy in moderntimes. Democracies, however, have executive branch lead-ers who are vot... ... to the current feelings of the electorate—a tem-porary motion consistent within most democracies and onethat will eventually return to the right. How... ...hat will eventually return to the right. However, the re-gion’s historically unstable democracies, combined with the 4inability ... ...listed as “promoting freedom, justice and dignity”and “leading a growing community of democracies.” Hisjustification for linking world democracies to ... ...strating de-mocracy in action. As Ferguson explains, “Democracy doesn’talways produce liberal governments.”46 As a result, theUnited States’ national ...