Democracy

Vocabulaire complémentaire [B2+] Human rights : les droits de l’homme To encourage private initiatives : encourager les initiatives privées A thirst for change : une soif de changement To symbolize freedom : symboliser la liberté On the road to democracy : sur la route de la démocratie To permit pluralism : permettre le pluralisme The democratization process : le processus de démocratisation To give an impetus to : donner un élan à … A call for reforms : un appel à des réformes To bind people : réunir

that follows the violent repression of the Tibetan upheaval that happened in 1959. These events moved the international public opinion and triggered a controversy but the powerful states remained silent. Indeed, some organizations asked for democracy and respect of the human rights. Few powerful politicians chose to give their opinion about this issue. They remained very discreet and just asked very shyly for an “invitation to restrain”. This international silence proves the Chinese power

spied by the Stasi and particularly by a man which is seat on a nearby flat and listen to all their conversations who falls little by little in love with this girl. "Good Night and Good Luck" is an enormous slap for those who claim to make some democracy, and at the head George Bush, embodied here by the senator and his McCarthyism. Nothing changed in almost sixty years, that there is on the contrary a regression and that finally the censorship managed to remove the journalism, and that the television

totally  absent  from  the  public  sphere,  and  human  right  groups  such  as  Amnesty  International  and  Human  Rights  Watch viii   have  repeatedly  expressed  concerns  about  human  rights  in  Saudi  Arabia.  According  to  The  Economist’s  Democracy  Index,  the  Saudi  government  is  the  seventh  most  authoritarian  regime  among  the  167  countries  rated ix .  Reporter Sans Frontières ranks it 157th out of 175th, amongst the worst countries for press freedom.     However, because it is the world’s largest oil exporters

tortueuse et divisée. Les Sanctions prises par la communauté: Les Etats Unis et l’Union européenne ont depuis longtemps choisi une politique de fermeté à l’égard de la junte militaire : les USA ont adopté en 2003 le « Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act », renouvelé chaque année comportant de nombreuses sanctions économiques. Ces sanctions ont été renforcées en septembre 2007. l’UE renouvelle régulièrement depuis 1996 une position commune 1° prohibant les ventes d’armes et toute coopération

faveur d’un régime démocratique pluraliste. Le 17 mai 1994, les premières élections libres donnent la victoire au Front démocratique uni (United Democratic Front - UDF) de Bakili Muluzi, qui s’unira avec l’Alliance pour la démocratie(Alliance for Democracy - AFORD). Muluzi est élu président en battant le chef de l'État sortant. Malgré la dissolution de la coalition en 1996, Muluzi et ses partisans restent au gouvernement. En 1995, Muluzi reçoit de la Lincoln University du Missouri le titre de docteur

example of this new praxis. This constellation will rely on cosmopolitan solidarity, on "intersubjectivity" EU is the best example for it relies on solidarity, human rights, developed public opinion and deliberative policies. In also protects democracy beyond national boarders. Despite its legacy of violence and instability, the EU aims at universality as a bearer of the cosmopolitanism project. Problem : Habermas seems to link the fate of cosmopolitanism to the fate of the EU by opposing it to

Introduction India is a country in south Asia known to be the most populous democracy in the world with over 1.2 billion people. It's as well the seventh-largest country geographicaly. Its capital, New Delhi, is one of the fastest growing cities in the world . The wealthy indian culture is marked by a high degree of pluralism due to the diversity of its religions. Induism, buddhism, jainism, sikism are originated there and judaism, christianity, islam arrived in the first millenium,

points out, the distinction between organisational and limiting rules of government can be related to the distinction between two ideals of government, namely, liberalism and democracy, which, despite their historical interconnections, ought to be analytically separated as concerned with different issues. The ideal of democracy is principally concerned with the organisational rules of government, while the ideal of liberalism is principally concerned with the limiting rules of government. The former

the following criteria: → It must be a "European State" → It must respect the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law. There are three others criteria for to be a membership. These criteria are established by the European Council of Copenhagen in 1993: → Politic: Stable institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and the protection of minorities → Economic: A functioning market economy that can