Global Democracy Promotion: Seven Lessons for the New Administration

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, “President Sworn-In To Second Term,” January 20, 2005, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050120-1.html. 2. Nathan J. Brown, Amr Hamzawy, and Marina Ottaway, “Islamist Movements and The Democratic Process In The Arab World,” Carnegie Paper No. 67 (Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2006). 3. Nathan J. Brown, Amr Hamzawy, and Marina Ottaway, “Islamist Movements and The Democratic Process In The Arab World,” Carnegie Paper No. 67 (Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2006). 4. Dinorah Azpuru, Steven E. Finkel, Anibal Pérez-Liñán, and Mitchell A. Seligson, “Trends in Democracy Assistance: What Has the United States Been Doing?” Journal of Democracy 19, no. 2 (April 2008): 150–59. 5. The top ten recipient nations of “Governing Justly and Democratically” funding in FY 2009 budget are: Afghanistan ($248.0 million), Iraq ($198.0 million), Sudan ($77.4 million), Iran ($65.0 million), Pakistan ($55.2 million), Egypt ($45.0 million), Lebanon ($37.0 million), Liberia ($35.9 million), Indonesia ($35.2 million), and Russia ($30.3 million). See, U.S. Agency for International Development, “Congressional Budget Justifications: Foreign Operations, Fiscal Year 2009,” http://www.usaid.gov/policy/budget/cbj2009/). 6. The United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, The Power of Partnerships: Third Annual Report to Congress on PEPFAR (2007), Appendix III, http://www.pepfar.gov/press/c21604.htm. The estimate is calculated from funding data for PEPFAR focus countries provided in the report. The report does not provide country-specific data for other (non-focus country) bilateral assistance provided through PEPFAR. According to the report, which covers FYs 2004-2006, $3.366 billion of the $3.380 billion in funding provided to focus countries has been spent in Africa. 7. The Millennium Challenge Corporation has compacts signed or in implementation in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, and Tanzania. See, http://www.mcc.gov/countries/index.php. 8. Azpuru et al., “Trends in Democracy Assistance.” 9. Pakistani official during a meeting with HDAC delegation to Islamabad, Pakistan, May 27, 2008. 10. D. G. Tendulkar, Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Vol 3: 1930–34, (Bombay, India: The Times of India Press, 1961), p. 301. Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid PriceRepresentative David Price (D-NC) represents the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. He chairs the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) and the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee,and formerly taught political science and public policy at Duke University. The views he expresses in this article are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of HDAC