How can liberal democracies remain globally competitive?

The world s liberal democracies must start believing in themselves again.

What Orbán would describe as the liberal democracies in the United States and Europe are indeed weighed down by internal problems.

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But, more carefully stated, what scholars have shown is that liberal democracies almost never go to war with each other.

Many neo cons emerged from a leftist past, in which a belief in revolution from above was commonplace people s democracies yesterday, liberal democracies today.

But history shows that political entrepreneurs and liberalizing Catholic intellectuals were crucial to the creation of Christian Democracy.

Liberal democracy is, after all, well prepared to fight against its internal enemies through the rule of law. Laws against incitement to violence must be enforced, conspiracies prosecuted, traitors exposed.

Liberal democracy is, after all, well prepared to fight against its internal enemies through the rule of law.

a unified opposition respecting classic liberal values

Terrorists hope to create a climate of fear and insecurity that will provoke liberal democracies to harm themselves by undercutting their quality in terms of their own values.

Business is at a complete standstill...

Since the Velvet Divorce which separated Slovakia and the Czech Republic, there have been liberal democratic periods as well as the illiberal democracy of Vladimir Meciar's regime of 1994 1998.

Other Confucian societies, such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, now have thriving liberal democracies, and there is no reason to believe that such a transition is impossible in China.

In fact, liberal values sometimes contradict each other.

Liberal International (LI) is a political international federation for liberal political parties.

Active citizens who defend the liberal order must thus be its safeguard.

Indeed, Russia s liberal promises have been shattered time after time.

What was originally called the liberal arts provided the skills necessary for this transformation.

Of course, many liberal Europeans are still alive and well.

It is something we will see blossoming during the next years.

From Christian Democracy to Muslim Democracy?

But, more carefully stated, what scholars show is that liberal democracies almost never go to war with each other, and it may be that a liberal constitutional culture is more important than the mere fact of elections.

Even on marriage, many Saudis expressed surprisingly liberal views.

Liberal cycles are characterized by government intervention and conservative cycles by government retreat. A long liberal cycle stretched from the 1930 s to the 1970 s, followed by a conservative cycle of economic deregulation, which now seems to have run its course.

Within the Arab world, moderate and liberal groups are losing ground to radical Islamic movements.

In 1795, however, liberal republics were abstract ideas. Yet Kant imagined our present reality of flourishing liberal democracies.

On the contrary, it is to uphold the liberal tradition in which many Jews continue to believe.

Throughout modern times liberal states have always co existed alongside many kinds of tyranny.

Liberal cycles are characterized by government intervention and conservative cycles by government retreat.

In 1795, however, liberal republics were abstract ideas.

What was originally called the liberal arts provided the skills necessary for this transformation.

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Liberal cycles are followed by conservative cycles, which give way to new liberal cycles, and so on.

The imposition of a monolithic religious discourse on society has made liberal values attractive to Iranians.

Countries' liberal foreign exchange has also contributed to OFDI by developing country firms.

But, more carefully stated, what scholars show is that liberal democracies almost never go to war with each other, and it may be that a liberal constitutional culture is more important than the mere fact of elections.

Liberal cycles, the historian Arthur Schlesinger thought, succumb to the corruption of power, conservative cycles to the corruption of money.

In the past three weeks, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, and the Conservatives have all held their annual conferences.

Liberal cycles are followed by conservative cycles, which give way to new liberal cycles, and so on. 160

The 34 CSCE member States (all the countries of Europe except for Albania, plus the United States and Canada) took a decisive step forward on the road to peace and cooperation in Europe.