The Globe and Mail: Democracy promotion? Poof, it’s vanished.
In this season of summitry, as the world’s leaders and ministers flit between Seoul, Lisbon, Jerusalem and Washington, it is worth tuning out the words being spoken, for a moment, and paying attention to those that have disappeared. Chief among these is “democracy.” A decade or even five years ago, any major meeting to discuss the Middle East, Afghanistan, Sudan, North Africa or Eastern Europe would have been dominated by talk of democratic reform. Read the story here.