What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is... →
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus... →
The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that... →
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for... →
I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no... →
Eugene Fama