In January 2007 de Klerk was a speaker promoting peace and democracy in the world at the " Towards a Global Forum on New Democracies " event in Taipei, Taiwan, along with other dignitaries including Poland's Lech Wałęsa and now former Taiwan President Chen Shui-Bian.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2008, Uruguay scored an 8. 08 in the Democracy Index and ranked 23rd amongst the 30 countries considered to be Full Democracies in the world.

Ethan Gutmann, adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, approached the allegations by conducting extensive interviews around the world with a variety of former prisoners from Chinese labor camps and prisons, including Falun Gong practitioners and non-practitioners.

From the outside, he has worked with both the Clinton and second Bush Administrations, helping persuade them to initiate new democracy policies, including the Community of Democracies and abolishing the so-called " Arab exception ", for the first time promoting democracy in the Arab world.

Democracies have been defined differently by different theorists and researchers ; this accounts for some of the variations in their findings.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies ( FDD ) describes itself as a non-profit, non-partisan policy institute " working to defend free nations against their enemies ".

Democracies are instituted to ensure freedom for all and popular control over government authority ; through their popular appeal, demagogues exploit the freedom secured under democracy to gain a level of power for themselves that overrides the rule of law, thereby undermining democracy.

Democracies were involved in more colonial and imperialistic wars than other states during the 1816 – 1945 period.

Democracies have often been imposed by military intervention, for example in Japan and Germany after WWII.

" Consolidation and Corruption: The Effect of IGO Membership on Level of Corruption in Emerging Democracies " Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 < Not Available >.

Journalist Ethan Gutmann of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies produced a median estimated death toll of 65, 000 based on a refugee testimony, while researchers David Kilgour and David Matas produced an estimate of 41, 500 killed from 2000-2005.

* Democracies Do Not Make War on One Another ... or Do They?

* Michael Holmes ( Europe of Democracies and Diversities ) ( sat as non-attachied from March 20, 2000 ; resigned on December 15, 2002 )

37 MEPs ( 33 on July 20, with four more the next day ) from the United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ), Junibevægelsen ( Denmark ), Mouvement pour la France ( France ), Lega Nord ( Italy ), ChristenUnie-SGP ( Netherlands ), LAOS ( Greece ), Junilistan ( Sweden ), Nezávislí ( Czech Republic ), the League of Polish Families ( Poland ) and an Independent from Ireland, joined together in the first week of the new Parliament to form the Eurosceptic group called " Independence / Democracy ", succeeding the group called " Europe of Democracies and Diversities " that had existed before the elections.

In an effort to encourage the adoption of democratic governance in other Asian countries, Elbegdorj, along with Korean President Lee Myung Bak, started the Asian Partnership for Democracy initiative as an arm of the Community of Democracies with a particular focus on the region in which Mongolia is the only long standing democracy.

He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Committee on the Present Danger, Vice Chairman of Freedom House and the Council for a Community of Democracies.

Bruce Jackson is the founder and President of the Project on Transitional Democracies.

* President, Project on Transitional Democracies 2002 – Present

* Is the President of the Project on Transitional Democracies.

* The founder and president of the Project on Transitional Democracies for the Project for the New American Century, a group whose goal is " to accelerate the integration of Europe's new democracies into NATO and the European Union.

She is journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute based in Washington, D. C. A former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, she writes a weekly column for Forbes, blogs for Pajamas Media, and makes guest appearances on television and radio.

However, in a surprise development, and after intense negotiations between Mexico, Chile and the United States at the third Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies in Santiago, Chile, on 29 April, Colombian foreign minister Carolina Barco announced that Derbez was withdrawing his candidacy, " in order to prevent a breakdown of hemispheric relations ".

DoWire. org Democracies Online features him as one of the most notable human rights bloggers on the Internet.

Jan Mortier, Former Rapporteur for President Mikhail Gorbachev ’ s World Political Forum, the Commission on Globalisation and the NGO Process of the Community of Democracies, Editorial Advisory Board Member of World Peace News, New York.

Democracies have a few times issued formal declarations of war on other democracies, usually because of a war between a temporary allied nondemocracy and the other democracy.

Stalinist architecture was, from about 1948 to 1956, employed by the post-war Eastern Bloc ' People's Democracies ', usually after defeating internal Modernist opposition.

Council for a Community of Democracies is a Washington, D. C. based NGO which was established in order to promote global interest in and support for the Community of Democracies, improved relationships among democracies, and democratic transitions in general.

By that it is not meant that any one of the other theatres of war is of less importance than the Pacific, but that Australia asks for a concerted plan evoking the greatest strength at the Democracies ' disposal, determined upon hurling Japan back.

Maria Leissner at the United Nations Community of Democracies press briefing in 2012Maria Leissner ( born 1956, Gothenburg ) is a Swedish politician and former party leader of the Swedish Liberal People's Party ( 1995 – 97 ).

He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for twenty years and now holds the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

In November 2002, she was appointed Head of the Italian Government delegation at the Inter-governmental Conference of the Community of Democracies in Seoul.

The conference – called Global Winds of Change: Religions ' Role in Today's World ; The Challenges in Democracies and Secular Societies – was aimed at bringing together members of the world's many faiths to discuss the role of religion in modern society.

Kent is a member of the board of Canadian Coalition for Democracies and has represented them at public events such as a demonstration supporting publication of the controversial Muhammed cartoons.

Civitatis s and the Executive Director Jan Mortier jointly drafted the Document for Ministerial Consideration that was then presented to the Ministers of State at the Fourth intergovernmental meeting of the Community of Democracies.

Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another is a book by the historian and physicist Spencer R. Weart published by Yale University Press in 1998.

Democracies, such as the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, Indonesia, India, Spain and the Philippines, have also experienced domestic terrorism.

Democracies may be pressured to respond to such aggression — perhaps even preemptively — through the use of force.

Betar has also worked in Toronto and Montreal with off-campus organizations such as the Canadian Coalition for Democracies to promote the importance of secular and participatory politics in Canada.

Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, Euro-Atlantic Partnership ; World Health Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; the Council of Europe, CFE Treaty, the Community of Democracies ; the International Monetary Fund ; and the World Bank.

The Australian Government, therefore regards the Pacific struggle as primarily one in which the United States and Australia must have the fullest say in the direction of the Democracies ' fighting plan.

“ Protest Policing in the United States, 1960-1995 .” pp. 49 – 69 in Policing Protest: The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies, edited by D. della Porta and H. Reiter.

How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam.