Author: americagov
Publisher: eBookDB.org
Keywords: brief, democracy
Number of Pages: 50
Published: 2007-12-31
eBookDB-ID: EBDB0302US

Democracy in Brief gives a concise account of the intellectual origins, history, and basic values of democratic systems of government. The book touches on topics such as rights and responsibilities of citizens, free and fair elections, the rule of law, the role of a written constitution, separation of powers, a free media, the role of parties and interest groups, military-civilian relations and democratic culture.

Author: Cheryl Benard
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: resources, strategies, partners, islam, democratic, civil
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833034383
ISBN-13: 9780833034380

Contemporary Islam is struggling within itself over its values, identity, and place in the world, with rivals contending for spiritual and political dominance--as well as with the "outside" world. In Western eyes, the ideal Islamic community would be democratic, economically viable, politically stable, and socially progressive and would follow the rules and norms of international conduct. But as the international community strives to understand all this and, possibly, influence the outcome, the best approaches--or even whom to approach--are not always easy to determine. As an aid to the proc

Author: Pippa Norri
Publisher: World Bank Publication
Keywords: governance, reform, media, news, sentinel, public
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2009-11-19
ISBN-10: 0821382004
ISBN-13: 9780821382004

The purpose of this book is to inform governance advisors about the vital role of the news media for governance reform. This book approaches the issue of news media and governance with three broad questions that it attempts to answer on the basis of quantitative data and case studies. First, a normative approach asks: What ideal roles should media systems play to strengthen democratic governance and thus bolster human development? Second, an empirical approach considers independent evidence derived from cross-national comparisons and from selected case studies, asking: Under what conditions do

Author: R., J. Rummel
Publisher: Llumina Press
Keywords: book, series, reset
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2004-09-21
ISBN-10: 1595263551
ISBN-13: 9781595263551

In Book 1 of this of this series, a secret society of war and democide survivors sent a female warrior Joy Phim and her historian lover John Banks back to 1906 to prevent the major wars and democides of the 20th Century and to promote a democratic peace. In Book 2, the new universe created by the lovers enabled a radical Islamic ruler to achieve a global Muslim dictatorship by attacking and defeating the democracies with nuclear weapons. Dying survivors sent a message about the nuclear attack back in time for the lovers to find, and to prevent this horrible future. This was their new missio

Authors:James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, Andrew
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: iraq, congo, building, nation, role
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833035894
ISBN-13: 9780833035899

Reviews nearly 50 years of UN nation-building efforts to transform unstable countries into democratic, peaceful, and prosperous partners. The authors examine the UN

Author: R. J. Rummel
Publisher: Llumina Press
Keywords: terror, red
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2004-09
ISBN-10: 1595262091
ISBN-13: 9781595262097

A secret society of war and democide survivors sends a female warrior Joy Phim and her historian lover John Banks back to 1906 to prevent the major wars and democides of the 20th Century and to promote a democratic peace. Their intervention becomes known in the far future, and a Muslim dictator sends a Chinese warrior woman back to 1906 to kill them and save the world for Islam. The lovers and the assassin soon discover that Bolsheviks have already changed the universe with a successful Russian Revolution in 1905. Changed? What could change their past? How could the Russian Revolution occur

Author: Juliane Kippenberg
Publisher: WHO
Keywords: reform, democratic, republic, congo, military, violence, rape, commanders, condone, sexual, soldiers
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2009-06-30
ISBN-10: 1564325105
ISBN-13: 9781564325105

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), tens of thousands of girls and women have suffered horrific acts of sexual violence. The government army is one of the main perpetrators. Commanders, even when confronted with abuses, have frequently failed to stop sexual violence and may themselves be guilty of war crimes or crimes against humanity as a consequence. In this report, Human Rights Watch looks at sexual violence committed by the army and more specifically the 14th brigade whose case illustrates the failure to enforce respect for humanitarian law. The Congolese government and internationa