Snags and fissures now bedevil Croatia's infant democratic reforms.

(f) The statements made by the President of Turkmenistan in April 2005 on democratic reforms, and urges that those reforms be truly democratic, in line with established international norms

Khatami, too, had good ideas about press freedom, individual rights, and democratic reforms.

This is relevant for the current debate about reforms in many democratic countries.

Second, a change of government through elections prompted reforms and gave them democratic legitimacy.

That government has undertaken various important democratic reforms and initiated accession negotiations with the EU.

Zedillo championed democratic reforms during his term, enabling the elections and political transition to proceed smoothly.

These reforms had broad political support and were, in fact, initiated during a social democratic government.

For that, he must pursue democratic reforms, institutional regeneration, and renewed diplomatic ties with the West.

Domestic spying is growing and taking new forms nowadays because China's leaders, unsettled by the changes their own economic reforms have unleashed, bluntly refuse to consider democratic reforms.

History has shown that legitimate, democratic governments can do wonders in pushing tough and needed social and economic reforms.

Anti government protests swept Bahrain's streets on February 14, 2011, with protesters calling for democratic reforms and more freedoms.

For instance, in the mid 1980 s, Chinese leaders seriously discussed and later drew up a blueprint for modest democratic reforms.

The government uses the threat of terrorist attacks to justify domestic repression of political opponents and the absence of democratic reforms.

Rightly so enlargement of NATO is not an expansion that threatens Russia or other countries which strive for democratic political reforms.

However, expansion must go hand in hand with institutional reforms that improve both the EU's capacity to act and its democratic legitimacy.

The election is crucial since it will determine if the military backed government is committed to implementing more democratic reforms in the country.

The case against a Yanukovich counter revolution is that it would be just that a ruthless effort to undo Ukraine s democratic and legal reforms.

The case against a Yanukovych counter revolution is that it would be just that a ruthless effort to undo Ukraine s democratic and legal reforms.

Reforms undertaken during the Democratic Republic (1978 92) also came face to face with a wave of jihad, only truly making ground in Kabul.

Germany u0027s Backward Reforms

Mexico s Powerful Energy Reforms

Democratic Alliances

In this time of transition, the government has been aggressive in restricting the work of media and arresting those who are campaigning for democratic reforms.

In recent years, a number of countries, often after painful reforms, have become democratic, showing that it is possible to globalize democracy as well as trade.

As al Saud political and economic control declines, and in the absence of democratic reforms, the regime s policy seems certain to shift from patronage to repression.

Enterprise and financial market reforms have been key, and many more reforms are coming.

China u0027s Reforms Stall Again

These reforms will eventually come.

We pushed forward with reforms.

Internet technology for discussing reforms

Junta reforms for the worse

Indonesia s Democratic Islam

Islam s Democratic Imperative

Kenya s Democratic Hope

Egypt s Democratic Dictator?

Ukraine s Democratic Choice

Burma s Democratic Charade

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Thailand s Democratic Disorder

If, on the other hand, enough people realize that the old ways are the problem, rather than the solution, democratic reforms will still have a fighting chance.

As the Union reforms itself internally to strengthen its democratic character and become a truly open society, it must not close itself off from those outside it.

At the same time, politicians in democratic countries need to think seriously about reforms of international institutions, because we desperately need institutions capable of real global governance.

Political reforms are more likely to be successful if they are preceded by economic reforms.

Instead of proposing reforms to the electorate and then implementing them on the strength of a clear democratic mandate, the few serious reforms in the past 20 years have been presented as being externally imposed mainly to comply with European Union requirements.