cover image: AnnuAl InternAtIonAl ConferenCe CAsAblAnCA, MoroCCo, 8–9 June, 2007 Democracy, a Universal Value?

AnnuAl InternAtIonAl ConferenCe CAsAblAnCA, MoroCCo, 8–9 June, 2007 Democracy, a Universal Value?

23 Sep 2008

Full recognition of the idea of a common quest, the singularity of the democratic ideal, the plurality of democratic systems and the inclusion of the “social substance” should inform our debates and our efforts to advance democracy around the world in the 21st century.” Allow me to begin by telling you about the wonderful welcome I received from Driss Moussaoui, former President of the Collectif D. [...] There was also the ranean towns of the north; with the construction creation of the Royal Institute of the Amazigh of highways between Casablanca and Tangiers, Culture, with the legal and factual recognition Rabat and Fez, Casablanca and Marrakesh, and of the Amazigh language as a national language, soon, between Marrakesh and Agadir. [...] In the complex and the poverty linked to ethno-cultural 1930s, as a result of the “economic crisis of capital- groups is exploding, vastly overwhelming the ism” and of the vision of “development within,” political parties, which are no longer organic which promoted policies of “import substitution” channels for the electoral representation of these and the implementation of a process of industri-. [...] The establishment of the Turkish Republic under the main assumption is that the claim about a binary leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923, but opposition between the secularism of the Turkish also with the Ottoman modernization policies of state and the Muslim identity of Turkish society is the nineteenth century. [...] “In its self-appointed The AKP won the election in 2002 because role as the ‘guardian of the unitary, secular state, it had embraced the rules of the only game the military occupies the paradoxical position of in town—democracy—and recognized the ‘safeguarding’ democracy while at the same time legitimacy of the army as the guardian of posing a major challenge to further democrati- secularism.

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