The Best Way to Promote Democracy?
The crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar last week has given rise to the idea of sanctioning a regime.
Imposing sanctions on a country will affect its economy, which in turn affects its citizens. Some officials believe that progress toward democracy can actually be reversed by sanctions. Fareed Zakaria, writing in today’s Washington Post, said that one of the lessons that we should have learned from Iraq was that "decades of sanctions destroy civil society and empower the worst elements of the country."
Globalization and Citizenship - the WFFD Continues
The World Forum on the Future of Democracy panel on globalization, “Are America’s Founding Principles Relevant in a Global Age,” was moderated by Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. The panelists were: Choi Young-Jin, the South Korean ambassador to the UN; Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; and Kumi Naidoo, secretary general of CIVICUS, a global coalition of civil society organizations based out of South Africa.
