What countries are a democracy in the middle east?
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Egypt,Turkey,Iran,Pakistan are democratic countries. In no two countries the democratic practices are exactly similar.In Europe, there are democracies with Sovereign Monarchs,for example.
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greece\n\ncoz, democracy is a greek word !! :-)
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I can't be very specific but I know a democracy is a system where the people vote for their representatives and all the laws/bi-laws that govern the country.
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there is the democratic republic - which the USA has.  They elect people to legislate on their behalf - and elect the leader as well.\n\nThere is the democratic monarchy - which the UK and others have.  It still elects those to legislate for them - but the leader is there by birthright (there are still a couple where the monarch is not just a figure head).\n\nThere is plain democracy, which does not exist to my knowledge anymore, it was in ancient Greece, where there was no real "leader" and that while there was a senate to deal with certain issues, one person = one vote on main issues.\n\nI suppose you could also include the democratic dictatorship where there is "an election" every so many years and surprisingly the "leader" keeps getting re-elected. basically one person = no vote.\n\nThere was the attempt at democratic socialism, but am not sure as much about that.
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Iraq is a long way from being a real democracy and I doubt if it ever will be.  The standard definition of determining establishment of democracy in a country is that the state has gone through at least two successful election cycles.  Just because you set up a form of government based on a few democratic ideals does not mean you have a democracy; that determination rests with the people. As far as the US is concerned, its own defiinition is even more restrictive in that the results of the election have to be to its own liking.  The Palestinians' election of Hamas might have been 'democratic' but it did not suit US designs. So if the elected do not meet US approval then by the US definition it is not a real democracy.\n\nI would suspect that if the Iraqis are left alone, free of US meddling and intereference, they will revert to a system more relevant to their own cultural and social background and resembling nothing like US-style democracy.  In that regard, it will still be evil according to the USsince it would not be under the direct control of politicians in Washington.
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Middle Eastern.\n\nIsrael's in the Middle East.
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Egypt. It's very far from democratic. The government is assigned by the President. You should alter your question to: Is there anything I agree with???!!!!
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Good question. Jordan, Syria, and Iran.
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the closest systems you will find are Sweden and I think Switzerland as these two countries hold a lot of referendums where people vote on major issues, which is the purest form of liberal democracy.
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While not technically in the Middle East, Pakistan had a female leader in the 90s for a few years.\n\nSaudi Arabia just started allowing elecions at the local level last year and is slowly moving to the modern world as elections take hold.  \n\nIraq has a few female members of its Parliment.  Kuwait also has a growing call for female leaders.\n\nIt will probably take another generation before we see widspread representation of women in official positions in the M.E..  Onless we allow the Whabahhists (sp) to take over, then there will be no women in power.
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I agree, it's totally inconsistent.  We make a big noise about democracy in the Middle East but then when the Palestinians freely elect a government we don't like, then we try to boycott it.
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Israel is the only pro-western democracy in the middle east.  Isn't that exactly the kind of country Washington would want as an ally?
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Mostly Foreign states, but if you want one chosen i would have to say IRAN, a FASCIST state setting between two country's that will be working Democracies. Iran hates its own people and ARABS so much they kill them by the hundreds.
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Zimbabwe, North Korea, Belarus, Cuba, Iran,...\n\nhttp://www.arthuredelstein.org/worlddictators/\n\nItaly has been a democratic republic since June 2, 1946.
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European liberal democracies, in that they have elected governments.\n\nHolland, Spain and England also have monarchys.  France is a republic.  \n\nThey are all 1st world, wealthy countries, are all members of the EU and NATO.
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The majority of countries today are under democratic rule.  A few principal examples:  the United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, New Zeeland
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what's going on in the Middle East can be boiled down to two words.....culture clash. Middle Eastern theocracy vs Western democracy. It's like mixing oil and water\nand quite frankly the confrontation is long overdue. 9/11 finally brought the long standing turmoil to flash point and I must say that I comment President Bush for meeting it head up and taking care of business as quickly as he did....to a Middle Eastern zealot, hesitation or an effort to compromise (Gore would have done both) only serves to confirm their suspicions of weakness....AND THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST!~