Analysis and Policy

Democracy Building Globally: How can Europe Contribute?

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Public speech

Author

Vidar Helgesen, Secretary-General (International IDEA)



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"Conference: “Democracy Building Globally: How can Europe contribute?”, Society for International Development, The Hague, The Netherlands, 13 September 2007 ", September 13, 2007

Keywords:

democracy and development, democracy building, europe-cis

English, 8 pages

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Thus, it is clear that there has been a converging evolution of the two terms towards each other: democracy is more and more meant to include development and development is more and more meant to include the realisation of the basic human rights, including, of course, civic and political ones.


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