Democratic Kampuchea's relations with Vietnam and Thailand worsened rapidly as a result of border clashes and ideological differences.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

Sihanouk remained under insecure house arrest in Phnom Penh, until late in the war with Vietnam when he departed for the United States where he made Democratic Kampuchea's case before the Security Council.

The Constitution defined Democratic Kampuchea's foreign policy principles in Article 21, the document's longest, in terms of " independence, peace, neutrality, and nonalignment.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

The Democratic Republic of Congo also possesses 50 percent of Africa ’ s forests and a river system that could provide hydro-electric power to the entire continent, according to a United Nations report on the country ’ s strategic significance and its potential role as an economic power in central Africa.

Germany concluded four treaties with the Soviet Union covering the overall bilateral relationship, economic relations, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the territory of the former German Democratic Republic, and German support for those troops.

Nehru advocated Democratic Socialism / Fabian Socialism and a strong public sector as the means by which economic development could be pursued by poorer nations.

After World War II, Leipzig became a major urban centre within the Communist German Democratic Republic but its cultural and economic importance declined.

The Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ) promotes a more Islamist political agenda, while the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ) promotes a more democratic socialist economic policy.

Although no longer a member of the OAU ( Organisation of African Unity ) since November 12, 1984 — following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara — Morocco remains involved in developing the regional economy, as the city of Casablanca contains North Africa's busiest port and serves as the country's economic center.

Democratic socialism generally refers to any political movement that seeks to establish an economy based on economic democracy by and for the working class.

In elections held in June 1992, Václav Klaus's Civic Democratic Party won in the Czech lands on a platform of economic reform, and Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) emerged as the leading party in Slovakia, basing its appeal on the fairness of Slovak demands for autonomy.

In the long run, America adopted Whiggish economic policies coupled with a Democratic strong presidency.

Although a growing number of the party's conservatives — especially in the South — had grown increasingly skeptical of Roosevelt's economic and social policies, few of them dared to publicly oppose Roosevelt, and he was renominated easily when the Democratic Convention met in Chicago.

Large sections of the SPD increasingly opposed his security policy while most of the FDP politicians strongly supported that policy ; while representatives of the left wing of the Social Democratic Party opposed reduction of the state expenditures, the FDP began proposing a monetarist economic policy.

The incoming Democratic president Bill Clinton reappointed Alan Greenspan, and kept him as a core member of his economic team.

Democratic socialism advocates for the immediate creation of decentralised economic democracy from the grassroots level, undertaken by and for the working class itself.

Democratic socialists endorse a post-capitalist, socialist economic system as an alternative to capitalism.

A man marching against capitalism with Democratic Socialists of America members at the Occupy Wall Street protest event, September 24, 2011Socialism includes various theories of economic organization that advocate public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals, with an egalitarian method of compensation.

And in the context of New Democratic revolution, the rationality of such economic policies as to destroy feudalism on the basis of land to the tiller, to confiscate all foreign and domestic economic establishments with a monopolistic character and to limit, control and guide private capital that do not control public life, have been proved in practice.

Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ), he became known as an economic reformer, focusing on Japan's government debt and the privatization of its postal service.

A deep national economic depression following the Panic of 1873 led to major Democratic gains in the North, the collapse of many railroad schemes in the South, and a growing sense of frustration in the North.

As the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) withdrew from the governing coalition in 1966 due to disagreements over fiscal and economic policy, Erhard was forced to resign.

While Grewe was somewhat circumspect, the foreign minister, Brentano, made it clear that regardless of the economic consequences the Federal Republic would immediately break off diplomatic relations with any state that recognized the German Democratic Republic de jure or recognized the " reality of two German states ".

In 1947, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and Hubert Humphrey, he founded Americans for Democratic Action to support the cause of economic and social justice.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

The New Democrats, organized as the Democratic Leadership Council ( DLC ), were a branch of the Democratic Party that called for welfare reform and smaller government, a policy supported by both Democrats and Republicans.

Jimmy Carter had officially ended the policy of Détente, by financially aiding the Mujahideen movement in neighboring Afghanistan, which served as a pretext for the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan six months later, with the aims of supporting the Afghan government, controlled by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.

In domestic policy the People's Delegation sought socialism based on the Finnish Social Democratic ethos ; their vision of democratic socialism for the country differed sharply from Lenin's dictatorship of the proletariat.

Officially the Swedish King and the Liberal-Social Democratic government proclaimed neutrality in war, as a consequence of pressures in both foreign and domestic policy.

Under his leadership, the German government sought to reduce tensions with the Soviet Union and improve relations with the German Democratic Republic, a policy known as the Ostpolitik.

* Tax policy and the economy: a debate between Michael Harrington and Representative Jack Kemp, April 25, 1979., ( New York, N. Y.: Institute for Democratic Socialism, 1979, no ISBN )

He was the Democratic party leader in the United States Senate, the chairman of the Committee on Territories, an avid promoter of railroads, an aspirant to the presidency, and, above all, a fervent believer in popular sovereignty: the policy of letting the residents of a territory decide whether or not they would permit slavery to exist.

President Modibo Keïta, whose Sudanese Union-African Democratic Rally ( US / RDA ) party had dominated pre-independence politics ( as a member of the African Democratic Rally ), moved quickly to declare a single-party state and to pursue a socialist policy based on extensive nationalization.

The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal has traditionally maintained a non-aligned policy and enjoys friendly relations with neighboring countries, especially India and China.

The publicity generated put the policy on the front burner in 1992, thrusting the issue into the presidential campaign ," with every Democratic candidate and independent Ross Perot publicly promising to end the ban.

In September 2010, in the light of the failure to repeal the " Don ’ t Ask, Don ’ t Tell " policy ( which banned openly gay people from serving in the military ) during the Obama administration, the Libertarian Party urged gay voters to stop supporting the Democratic Party.

Garfield began to reverse the southern Democratic conciliation policy implemented by his predecessor, Rutherford B. Hayes.

In December 1999, the Belgian Federal Government announced that it would again pursue an active foreign policy, particularly in Central Africa where among others Belgium's former colony, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is situated.

Humphrey's critics later learned that Johnson had threatened Humphrey — Johnson told Humphrey that if he publicly opposed his Administration's Vietnam War policy, he would destroy Humphrey's chances to become President by opposing his nomination at the next Democratic Convention.

Brandt's most important legacy was Ostpolitik, a policy aimed at improving relations with East Germany ( then German Democratic Republic ), Poland, and the Soviet Union.

Despite such associations and contrary to stated Social Democratic Party policy, Sweden had in fact secretly maintained extensive military co-operation with NATO over a long period, and was even under the protection of a US military security guarantee ( see Swedish neutrality during the Cold War ).

Out of Canada's three most prominent political parties, neither the Liberal Party nor the Conservative Party is officially in favour of abolishing the monarchy ( though the latter makes support for constitutional monarchy a founding principle in its policy declaration ) and the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has no official position on the role of the Crown.