Before the cold war ended, only three small African countries were proper democracies: Botswana, Mauritius and Senegal.
In other industrialized democracies this divide is more muddled by regional interests or other factionalism.
Perhaps he sees them as model democracies or perhaps he merely wants to provoke Mr Bush.
The U.S. and the European democracies must not treat the Romanian regime as a democratic government.
Indefinite detention without charge is a policy that we usually associate with dictatorships, not democracies.
Open data initiatives are happening in democracies around the world at all levels of government.
They have been tried and tested in other advanced democracies - and have worked.
Unlike in other democracies, power in Japan has rarely resided in the government of the day.
''America is one of the world's leading democracies and he will receive a fair trial there.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has called the Venezuelan electoral technology a model for other democracies.
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In the spring and summer of 1939, Stalin could have forged an alliance with Western democracies.
More fundamentally, the Turkish government is doing what democracies tend to do: reflecting its people's views.
Alexander Lukashenko has held out against the onset of popular democracies surrounding him (Russia? see below).
But the Arab League, few of whose 22 members are democracies, was more accommodating.
The latest shenanigans may be unpleasant, but are they not just teething pains in young democracies?
In some cases, young democracies will be tested for the first time by economic hardship.
The funny thing is, democracies have imposed Internet shutdowns nearly as often as their non-democratic counterparts.
He envisages a clash between the global constellation of democracies and the nouveau-riche autocracies.
ASEAN, especially in its most open democracies, Thailand and the Philippines, have deeper worries.
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Now Thailand and the Philippines count themselves as South-East Asia's most open and thriving democracies.
President Bush has visited several Eastern European capitals to highlight countries that have recently become democracies.
She also said the United States must be vigilant about larger powers invading small democracies.
Some democracies, including long-standing ones such as Malaysia and Singapore, essentially have semi-authoritarian regimes.
But that with one hand tied behind their back is precisely how democracies ought to fight terrorism.
And even so, it took decades for stable western democracies to emerge from our revolutions.
Soviet-dominated eastern Europe was excluded, as were fascist Spain and Portugal, because they were not democracies.
It now consumes the entire saving in working hours by the western democracies since 1900.
Great democracies, he believed, are built on the strong foundation of consent and human dignity.
In most democracies any of these allegations would surely be enough to remove the prime minister.
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