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Wednesday, June 09, 2004

# Posted 5:08 AM by Patrick Belton  

NEW DEMOCRACY UPDATE NEWSLETTER: We at OxBlog (and over at our foreign policy think tank, too) try regularly to do all we can to raise the profile of democracy promotion and democratisation issues, stripped bare of any connection to party or ideology, just because we believe deeply in their moral imperative. But democracy promotion is still a young field, where you can count the principal contributors (Thomas Carothers, Larry Diamond....) on one hand, and have another left to count the principal organisations (the National Endowment for Democracy, Carnegie's Democracy and Rule of Law project, Freedom House) - and probably still have enough fingers remaining to play a workable game of 'paper, rock, scissors'. (Or, for our text/instant messaging-addicted friends, the text message version: [ ] o 8x )

This is why it's incredibly nice when new people and initiatives join the field - and lately, one of those is Freedom House's Democracy Digest, which is produced by a transnational democracy network with editors in the US and the UK. It's a really stunningly well produced digest, which renders into one attractively written report the week's principal relevant news events, publications and information sources, job vacancies, and conferences. Personally I'm suspecting that our own democracy efforts at Nathan Hale will involve substantial collaboration with these folks - and in the meantime, everyone should really go and subscribe.
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