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democracy Archive
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Patriotic sentiments
Posted on 26/10/2010 | No CommentsThe collision between national sovereignty and democracy got another illustration today, this time courtesy of the justice minister of India. Arundhati Roy, the novelist, faces the prospect of prosecution for having declared that Kashmir was not an integral of India. The status of Kashmir is... -
Superstate or power-sharing?
Posted on 18/08/2010 | No CommentsFederalism is the political philosophy of the dispersal of power. It proposes the division of political power between levels and institutions of government to achieve the best combination of democracy and effectiveness. Since 1938, Federal Union has campaigned for federalism for the UK, Europe and... -
Peace and security are still not the same thing
Posted on 02/06/2010 | No CommentsGiven that the Hamas government in Gaza considers itself to be at war with Israel, it is hardly surprising that Israel seeks to enforce an arms embargo against Gaza. All the complaints about an Israeli violation of international law in stopping and searching the aid... -
Britain should invite in election monitors
Posted on 05/05/2010 | 1 CommentThe spread of democratic elections around the world after the end of the cold war was accompanied by the spread of election monitoring. The practice of allowing the quantity of Xs or numbers on the ballot papers to decide who should be in government is... -
Expats and MPs
Posted on 02/11/2009 | No CommentsPresident Sarkozy has floated the idea of having French MPs to represent French people abroad. There are hundreds of thousands of French citizens living in the UK – London is now the seventh largest French city – and they currently have little voice in French... -
Need for global rules
Posted on 04/10/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in The Daily Telegraph, 4 October 2009 SIR – Janet Daley (Comment, September 27) is correct to warn of the problems posed by global governance but is wrong to dismiss the idea out of hand. Her fear is that global governance... -
Overcome with emotion
Posted on 24/10/2008 | 8 CommentsIt’s been a strange week for statements about the European Union and why we should support it. Government ministers here and in Brussels have been musing on the issue in public, not always in a helpful manner. In Brussels, first, the EU institutions have reached... -
Global democracy: the case for a world government
Posted on 23/09/2008 | 1 CommentBy Torbjörn Tännsjö There is no denying that many problems facing humanity have a global nature. If we are to solve them at all, we need to solve them on a global level. This is probably true of problems to do with war and peace. This... -
Is smoking democratic?
Posted on 07/09/2008 | No CommentsMore on Sarah Palin, I’m afraid. Her purported belief in creationism, which turns out on closer inspection to be nothing of the kind, has led to an interesting discussion about the role of received authority in political decision-making. Christopher Caldwell, in the Financial Times (read... -
A league of democracies
Posted on 20/05/2008 | 3 CommentsMost of the discussion about the proposal for a league of democracies – floated most notably by Republican presidential candidate John McCain – centres about the notion of democracy. How to choose which countries are eligible and which are not? Can this be done without...
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