Democracy's "doubles"

Article Abstract:

Vladimir Putin's Russia to Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, regimes that claim to be democracies but act like autocracies are emerging as a major long-term threat to freedom. Chavez's strategy is to encourage maximum confrontation and political mobilization whereas the Kremlin's strategy is to encourage maximum confusion and political demobilization, and democracy's doubles present themselves not as alternatives to democracy but as embodiments of real democracy.

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Another Russia? Battling KGB, INC

Article Abstract:

The origin of a critical situation for the so called democracy under President Vladimir Putin, it nature and consequences are explained.

Economic aspects, Political activity, Putin, Vladimir, Russian foreign relations

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The strange death of the liberal consensus

Article Abstract:

The unexpected public opposition to democracy and liberalism, and support to emerging populism in Central European nations is discussed.

Europe, International aspects, Public opinion, Central Europe, Liberalism

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