Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
While economic growth and development, social mobilization, and political developments are all independent aspects of national development, they work together in important ways.
Russia faces a range of challenges as it attempts to modernize and effectively use its power on the global stage in the coming decade.
With the EU and the United States no longer occupying the central place in Turkey’s foreign policy, some of Ankara’s new foreign policy choices have created frictions with its traditional allies and are sparking concern among some observers of a gradual drift away from the West.
President Barack Obama has lowered the volume and changed the tone of U.S. policy with regard to supporting democracy in the world compared to his predecessor, George W. Bush.
The once relatively separate communities of democracy aid and development aid have in recent years become increasingly interconnected as developmentalists acknowledge the importance of taking politics into account and accept governance as a factor in developmental success.
Although the last decade saw great progress in reducing world poverty, the global recession has threatened recent gains. The UK and the international community can work together to reinvigorate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
To counter the steep economic downturn in 2009, Russia enacted a stimulus package equivalent to almost 7 percent of GDP. The Kremlin's response was effective and its consequences lead Russia's relatively quick recovery.
In its first six years of existence the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has performed admirably in the face of both numerous challenges and unrealistic expectations. Its future success, however, is not assured.
With the arrival to power of the Obama administration there appears to be a lessening of the divide that opened up in recent years between Europe and the United States over democracy promotion policies and programs.
One of the challenges President Barack Obama faces is leveraging his positive global appeal to develop an effective new framework for the promotion of democracy and human rights.
