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Democracy as a killer app

A reflection by Niall Ferguson in today’s Financial Times on the historical significance  of the past decade struck me as particularly apt and insightful. He explores the reasons behind the astonishing – and accelerating – shift to the east in the…

The UN on climate change as a security threat and on democracy

UN NYCI came across two interesting new UN documents whilst in New York earlier this week. Both are dated September 11th 2009; 9/11.

The first is a Guidance Note of the Secretary General on the United Nations Approach to Democracy. This has emerged out of consultations within…

How can democratisation efforts work better for sustainable development?

ballot_boxesDemocracy within countries doesn’t only come from electorates and citizens at national or local level. Sometimes in our globalised world the course of democratisation can be directed from the outside, by international agencies, foreign governments, or bilateral or multilateral development…