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George Soros

George Soros
Soros is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal political causes.[11] Between 1979 and 2011, Soros gave away over $8 billion to human rights, public health, and education causes.[12] He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe (1984–89)[8] and provided one of Europe's largest higher education endowments to Central European University in Budapest.[13] Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Foundations. Early life[edit] The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper ... It said report to the rabbi seminary at 9 am ... Soros did not return to that job, but instead went into hiding the next day. Soros emigrated to England in 1947 and became an impoverished student at the London School of Economics.[22] While a student of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros worked as a railway porter and as a waiter.

Soros Foundation 47th Munich Security Conference 2011: George Soros, Chairman of the Soros Fund Management, during the Discussion Soros foundations are autonomous institutions established in particular countries or regions, especially those emerging from behind the Iron Curtain,[2] to initiate and support open society activities. Such countries include the former Communist bloc in Central and Eastern Europe, parts of the former Soviet Union, South Africa, and Haiti.[2] The priorities and specific activities of each Soros foundation are determined by a local board of directors and staff in consultation with George Soros and OSI boards and advisers. One such program, for example, is the Library of Congress - Soros Foundation Visiting Fellows Program for librarians. See also[edit] Notes[edit] External links[edit] Official website

Freedom House As of 2010, grants awarded from the US government accounted for most of Freedom House's funding;[5] the grants were not earmarked by the government but allocated through a competitive process. The organization is directed by David J. Kramer, former head of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States Department of State. History[edit] Freedom House was founded in October 1941. After the war, as its website states, "Freedom House took up the struggle against the other twentieth century totalitarian threat, Communism.... The organization describes itself currently as a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. has vigorously opposed dictatorships in Central America and Chile, apartheid in South Africa, the suppression of the Prague Spring, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, and the brutal violation of human rights in Cuba, Burma, the People's Republic of China, and Iraq. Organization[edit] Reports[edit] Other reports[edit]

La Société ouverte et ses ennemis Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. La Société ouverte et ses ennemis (The Open Society and Its Enemies) est un ouvrage en deux volumes écrit par Karl Popper au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il y traite de la philosophie sociale, et développe notamment une critique de l'historicisme à travers trois auteurs : Platon, Hegel et Marx. Présentation[modifier | modifier le code] Dans La Société ouverte et ses ennemis, Popper développe une critique de l'historicisme, dans le prolongement de Misère de l’historicisme, et défend la « société ouverte » et la démocratie. « L'objet de ce livre est d'aider à la défense de la liberté et de la démocratie. — Karl Popper, Préface à l'édition française (2 mai 1978) Dans le second tome, Hegel et Marx, il critique les deux auteurs plus contemporains que sont Hegel et Marx. Popper traite également du rationalisme et de l'irrationalisme. Critiques[modifier | modifier le code] Éditions[modifier | modifier le code]

International Republican Institute Founded in 1983, the International Republican Institute (IRI) is an organisation, funded by the United States government, that conducts international political programs, sometimes called 'democratization programs'.[2] Initially known as the National Republican Institute for International Affairs, the IRI's stated mission is to "expand freedom throughout the world". Its activities include teaching and assisting with right-wing political party and candidate development in their values, "good governance" practices, civil society development, civic education, women’s and youth leadership development, electoral reform and election monitoring, and political expression in closed societies. It has been chaired by former presidential candidate John McCain since January 1993.[1][3] Background[edit] The IRI is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1983 after U.S. The Westminster speech led to the establishment of the National Endowment for Democracy by Congress in 1983. Activities[edit]

Open Society Institute One of the aims of the OSF is the development of civil society organizations (e.g., charities and community groups) to encourage participation in democracy and society.[1] The name is inspired by Karl Popper's 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies.[2] History[edit] Initiatives[edit] Related initiatives include the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA). Recent efforts have included those that have met with controversy, including an effort in the African Great Lakes region aimed at spreading human rights awareness among prostitutes in Uganda and other nations in the area. Activities by regions[edit] According to the 2009 OSF expenditures report,[12] Africa region (outside of South Africa) was the key area of funded activities: about $51,000,000 were spent on civil society support, human rights, education, justice, media, public health, transparency, and other activities there. Criticism[edit] See also[edit]

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs Logo of the NDIFIA The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) is an organization created by the United States government by way of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to channel grants for furthering democracy in developing nations. It was founded in 1983, shortly after the U.S. Under its mission, "NDI provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions. Critics charge that the term "democracy assistance" and "democracy building" are rhetorically employed to overpower nationalist and socialist resistance to US economic and cultural domination, particularly in Russia.[5] NDI Board of Directors & Senior Advisory Committee[edit] The Institute regularly researches and releases reports on global democratic political developments in conjunction with think tanks, NGOs, and civic organizations. See also[edit] Notes[edit] Further reading[edit] External links[edit] National Democratic Institute

Open society The open society is a concept originally suggested in 1932 by the French philosopher Henri Bergson,[1] and developed during the Second World War by Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper.[2] Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions.[3] History[edit] Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the long slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby.[4] Definition[edit] Popper defined the open society as one "in which individuals are confronted with personal decisions" as opposed to a "magical or tribal or collectivist society Critical knowledge[edit] Further characteristics[edit] Criticism[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit]

National Endowment for Democracy The President of the National Endowment for Democracy, Carl Gershman(pictured, second from the left), presents an award to a Tunisian leader of the Arab Spring in November 2011. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization that was founded in 1983 to promote democracy. It is funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress, within the budget of USAID, the U.S. agency for development assistance, which is part of the U.S. History[edit] Founding[edit] A bill was introduced in April 1967 by Congressman Dante Fascell (D,FL) to create an institute of International Affairs. In a 1982 speech at the Palace of Westminster, President Ronald Reagan proposed an initiative, before the British Parliament, "to foster the infrastructure of democracy—the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities." Later history[edit] Overview[edit] Source of funding[edit] Board[edit] Activities[edit] Central America[edit] China[edit] Iran[edit]

Welcome - Ethical Politics From Ethical Politics Dictionary of Ethical Politics The Dictionary of Ethical Politics sets out to be a lexicon of new political thought centered on the relationship between ethics and politics. Written through the collaboration of leading writers, academics, journalists and activists, the dictionary is meant as a popular but serious examination of central political concepts in the light of current environmental, social and geopolitical realities. The dictionary is being developed in the Wikipedia model using contributors who have been specifically invited to participate. At the moment, we are still working on the identification and definition of the dictionary entries. Who We Are The Dictionary of Ethical Politics was created through the partnership of Resurgence and openDemocracy. Project Philosophy Radical progressive politics have historical and cultural roots that have underplayed both the importance of the environment and the role of personal transformation in social action.

United States Agency for International Development The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States federal government agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid. USAID seeks to "extend a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country."[3] It operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. President John F. On 3 April 2014 the Associated Press published findings of an investigation showing how USAID engineered a program involving the creation of a Twitter-like communications network called ZunZuneo aimed at fueling political dissent to trigger a Cuban uprising.[5] Goals[edit] USAID's decentralized network of resident field missions is drawn on to manage US government (USG) programs in low-income countries for a range of purposes.[6] Disaster reliefPoverty reliefTechnical cooperation on global issues, including the environmentU.S. bilateral interestsSocioeconomic development

Occupy Wall Street: lessons and opportunities The Occupy movement in the United States is both similar to and different from its Tea Party predecessor. The precise combination gives it political space to grow, says Cas Mudde. If 2010 was the year of the Tea Party, 2011 is becoming the year of the Occupy movement. What started as a small local project of fed-up grassroots (non-)activists - an "occupation" of New York's Wall Street - has now spread throughout the United States (and even into Canada). There are important similarities and significant differences between the two mass movements. The overlaps The first similarity is the two movements' self-generating, bottom-up origin. Second, the institutionalised ideological "brethren" have in each case reacted in a confused and at times even hostile way to the upstart. Third, the (social) media plays a crucial role in the growth of the movements, not least in making these initially local initiatives "look" national - and thus helping them to become national. The contrasts

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